Bijapur (Chhattisgarh):A former village deputy sarpanch and another person were killed by Naxals on the suspicion of being police informers at separate places in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, police said on Thursday.
Both incidents took place under Jangla police station limits on Wednesday night in the insurgency-hit district, a senior police official said.
Dhaniram Korsa, a former deputy sarpanch was killed in Bardela village, while one Gopal Kudiyam was murdered in the nearby Gongla village, he said.
The official said according to locals, the rebels killed the two men with sharp-edged weapons after accusing them of acting as police informers.
On getting information about the incidents on Thursday morning, police teams were rushed to the spot and the bodies were sent to the hospital for postmortem, he said.