Four villagers were shot dead by extremists in Jharkhand's Khunti and Palamau districts, police said on Monday. The activists of the People's Liberation Front of India abducted Sukra Pahan, 25, and Balram Singh, 27, from their houses in Khunti district's Bandra village on Sunday night and fired 13 bullets, killing them on the spot, district Superintendent of Police Manoj Kaushik said.
The incident comes days after the arrest of PLFI's self-styled zonal commander Raj Kamal Gope.
The firing squad of the Communist Party of India-Maoist kidnapped Biswajit Yadav and Ajay Thakur in Palamau's Lawadi village on Sunday night and shot them dead, police said in Medininagar. All the bodies were recovered on Monday.
Meanwhile, armed Maoists on Monday set ablaze five passenger vehicles at Nari village under Kharagpur police station area in Bihar's Munger district.
The Maoist guerrillas asked passengers to get out of the vehicles and beat up the drivers before setting fire to the vehicles, the police said.
Arrangements were being made to send those people who were travelling in the vehicles to their respective destinations, they said.