06 December 2013
Journalist killed in Chhattisgarh, India
Knife attack
Suspected armed Maoists killed a journalist at a weekly market in Chhattisgarh’s violence-hit Bijapur district on Friday.
Bijapur’s Superintendent of Police Prashant Agrawal said a group of suspected Maoists repeatedly attacked Sai Reddy with sharp-edged weapons at Basaguda village weekly market. A severely-injured Reddy tried to run away but the attackers caught him and kept attacking him. The assailants then left the scene leaving Reddy, 51, in a pool of blood.
The attack was carried out in public view but no one dared to intervene. After the attackers left someone called a free ambulance service. However Reddy died on the way to district headquarters Bijapur.
Top police officials have blamed Maoists for the killing Reddy, who reported about tribal families caught in crossfire between Maoists and police since late 1980s. In February, Maoists killed another journalist Nemichand Jain in Bastar region where the ultras run a parallel government in vast forested interiors.
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