Maoists kill three political activists in West Bengal
Suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)
cadres
killed
three
activists
of
the
ruling
Communist
Party
of
India-Marxist
(CPI-M)
in
the
Salboni
area
of
West Midnapore district on April 13, reports The
Hindu.
The
CPI-M
zonal
committee
later
said
that
one
of
the
slain
persons
was
the
party’s
local
leader
and
the
other
two
were
supporters
of
the
party.
The
killed
persons
were
among
the
eight
persons
supervising
earth-digging
work
under
the
rural
employment
programme
when
they
were
abducted
by
the
Maoists.
While
five
persons
were
later
released,
bodies
of
the
three
persons
were
recovered
from
a
nearby
forest.