A group of suspected armed insurgents gunned down a schoolteacher at the Teregaon village’s weekly market falling under Kohka police station limits on in restive Rajnandgaon district, police said on Wednesday.
“Ranveer Salame (30) who was a ‘Shikshakarmi’ (teacher by profession) was killed by a group of suspected armed insurgents,” Superintendent of Police, Rajnandgaon, Sanjeev Shukla informed over telephone. The SP further informed that Salame was employed with a Government school located in the limits of Khadgaon police.
The incident occurred while the victim was in a weekly market along with his wife. About 10 armed Naxals stormed into the place and fired at him with pistols, Shukla said. Meanwhile, police sources informed that Maoist Commander of Mohla region Chintu Tekam and other local cadres are suspected to be involved in the killings with has spread terror in the area.
However police was yet to figure out why Naxals had targetted a school teacher. A case in this connection has been registered and security forces have launched a hunt to nab the attackers in the region.