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Five killed in caste violence in Bihar

Five more people died on Tuesday in yet another bloody day in central Bihar. A former village chief, Lal Sharma, a Bhumihar by caste, was killed in Maraitha village under Kinjar police station of Jehanabad district on Tuesday by suspected activists of the Peoples War Group.

Immediately after the incident, some Bhumihar youths said to be supporters of the Ranvir Sena attacked Dalits in a nearby village and killed four of them.

According to reports, those killed in the second incident had nothing to do with Lal Sharma's murder but were killed on the ground that they were sympathetic to the Peoples War Group, a Naxalite outfit.

Tuesday's incidents followed the killing of about a dozen supporters of the Communist Party of India-Marxist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) and Peoples War Group in the course of the war of attrition between them in two different villages of Patna district on Sunday.

Chief Minister Rabri Devi announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs 100,000 each to all those killed in Sunday's incident. Rashtriya Janata Dal president Laloo Prasad Yadav, who left Patna to visit the site of Sunday's carnage, could not make it due to floods in the village.

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