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Troopers gun down Bijapur camp settlers
Raju, 2, and Ram Bai, 25, died on the spot in the troopers' gunfire. A six-year-old boy and a woman were critically injured.
- IANS
- Published: 23:53 May 23, 2008
Raipur: A child and a woman were allegedly killed on the spot when dozens of Central Reserve Police Force troopers lined up men and women and opened fire on them in a village deep in Chhattisgarh's forested Bijapur district, which is a Maoist hot-bed, official sources said on Friday.
Raju, 2, and Ram Bai, 25, died on the spot in the troopers' gunfire. A six-year-old boy and a woman were critically injured.
Official sources say that the troopers deployed at a relief camp to guard camp settlers against Maoists, asked the men and women at midnight to come out for an urgent meeting and then started beating them up.
Tension gripped the entire area after settlers raised slogans yesterday and assembled in hundreds outside the district hospital to protest the incident, witnesses said.
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