Maoists shoot dead 16 villagers in Bihar

September 22nd, 2009 KOLKATA - Security forces are combing an area in West Bengal's Midnapore district Tuesday following overnight clashes between Maoist guerrillas and villagers, police said. Director General of Police Bhupinder Singh told IANS that there was no sign that anyone had died in the fighting late Monday that lasted for hours.

September 9th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Maoists blew up several buildings, including a police post, in Orissa's Sundergarh district early Thursday, police said. The rebels triggered the blast at Kalta village, located about 100 km from the steel city of Rourkela to protest against the arrest of some villagers last month by police.

September 6th, 2009 RANCHI - At least five people have been killed by naxals at Pundigiri village, about 60 kms from Ranchi this morning. According to police, activists of banned group Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) entered Pundigiri village in the Tamar block, abducted five villagers and took them to a forest where they were shot dead.

September 1st, 2009 RAIPUR - Maoist guerrillas killed two villagers in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon district Tuesday, accusing them of being police spies, police said. Some 50 rebels, including several women, came to Bijepar village and killed the two, in their late 20s, in front of the other people, district police chief Praveer Das said.

August 4th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Maoist rebels Tuesday shot dead a villager in Orissa's Rayagada district, police said. A group of four-five rebels killed Gopi Lama at Gurukuda village, some 120 km from Rayagada, the district headquarters, and some 500 km from the state capital.

July 10th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - At least three villagers sustained minor injuries when Maoists blew up a forest office in Orissa's Gajapati district early Friday, police said. Around 30 to 40 armed Maoists first ransacked the forest beat house at Paniganda village under Adaba police station, some 300 km from the capital, and then blew it up, district superintendent of police Sanjib Arora told IANS.

June 10th, 2009 PATNA - Maoist guerrillas in Bihar have issued a new and unique diktat - they have ordered poor villagers in Vaishali district to send their children to school. In a novel move to spread education among the marginalised sections of society, Maoists in Vaishali, about 40 km from here, have asked the poor to educate their children instead of making them work.

April 22nd, 2009 PATNA - Suspected Maoists killed a truck driver and set ablaze nine trucks in Bihar's Gaya district and bombed a block office in Aurangabad district early Wednesday, a day ahead of the second phase of Lok Sabha polls, police said. Over 100 armed Maoists attacked trucks on the busy Grand Trunk Road near Barachatti in Gaya, about 100 km from here, at around 12.30 am.

April 22nd, 2009 PATNA - Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar were engaged in a war of words on Wednesday hours after Maoists struck in four places in Bihar and Jharkhand. "The entire Nitish Kumar Government is a failure in Bihar.

April 16th, 2009 PATNA - Two security personnel - a policeman and a home guard - were killed as Maoists attacked a polling station in Bihar's Gaya district Thursday as voting was underway in the first phase of general elections, police said. Voting has been suspended at the station.

March 17th, 2009 PATNA - Three people have been killed by suspected Maoist rebels in a Bihar village, police said Tuesday. The incident took place when armed Maoist guerrillas attacked Khaira village of Lakhisarai district late Monday night.

January 26th, 2009 PATNA - A leopard was killed by villagers in Bihar Tuesday, a police officer said. The leopard was first stoned by the villagers and later beaten to death with bamboo sticks and iron rods.

January 22nd, 2009 PATNA - Villagers, angry over being denied a meeting with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, attacked a Bihar minister Friday who escaped unhurt but his six security guards suffered injuries, the police said. Minister of State Mines and Geology Ram Chandra Sahni was attacked by the angry villagers at Madhuban in East Champaran district.

December 25th, 2008 PATNA - More policemen were killed than Maoist rebels in over 100 gun battles in Bihar in the last five years, police officers said here Friday. A police officer in the state home department said that in the last five years, there had been 130 shoot-outs in Bihar between the police and the activists of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), in which 76 policemen and 63 rebels were killed.

December 24th, 2008 PATNA - Suspected Maoists Thursday attacked a passenger train in Bihar, killing a policeman and injuring two others and escaping with some arms and ammunitions, officials said. Government Railway Police (GRP) sources said a group of Maoists attacked Muzaffarpur-Bhagalpur intercity train near Bariyarpur in Lakhisarai district, about 150 km from here.