‘522 killed by Naxals after being termed informers’

Naxals have killed 522 people in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district after falsely accusing them of being informers, police said Monday.

In a statement, Gadchiroli police said a man found dead onMonday morning in Jambhiya Gatta in the district’s Ettapali tehsil, identifiedas Shishir Mandal (42), was not a police informer.

   

It said Mandal, a native of Chhattisgarh’s Bande area, usedto “regularly help” the Naxals and was killed due to a”financial conflict” with the latter.

Mandal was found dead around 9am on Adenge Road with a gunshot wound on his head.

“Naxals are misleading people by accusing some to bepolice informers. In this way, Naxals have killed 522 innocent people,”the Gadchiroli police statement said.The police statement, however, did not givedetails of the time period during which these people were killed.

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