Naxals kill four for refusing to blow up school

Raipur: Four tribals, including a postman, were killed by Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district for allegedly refusing to follow the Maoist diktat to blow off a school building being used as a police outpost.

The CPI (Maoist) cadres kidnapped the four villagers on the intervening night of December 17 and 18 from Kakner village and subsequently killed them in a nearby forest, official sources said.

Later their bodies were thrown on the outskirts of the village to terrorise locals, they said.

The victims include Ganesh, who was the village postman, and his uncle Vishwanath, one Chaman and Sukhlal, belonging to Maria Gond Tribe.

Sources said the Maoists earlier had asked the four to help to bomb the Ashram school building located in Kakner village, a portion of which was being used as a police outpost.

When they refused to carry out the Maoist order as the village children study in the school, they were kidnapped and subsequently killed.

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