At least two persons were killed and two injured when suspected Maoists guerrillas started indiscriminate firing near Ramanitard in Bhelwaghati panchayat under the same police station here on Sunday night. Police sources said around 10-15 Maoists attacked the house of village head Prabhawati Devi in Bhelwaghati of Giridih district at about 8 pm.
In the shootout her husband and son got killed on the spot. Two others villagers got injured by another group of naxals in Bhelwaghati village panchayat head’s residence in Giridih on the same night.
Meanwhile the police remain tight-lipped on the issue but sources said that these armed men are from Maoist leader Surang Yadav's group. After the incident, a fear psychosis has spread among the locals.
The villagers were attacked when they were attending a local meeting at her house. In the gunfire, two of them identified as Subash Agarwal and Shyam Sunder were killed on the spot while Gauri Shankar Agarwal, husband of the village head and the second son of Ranjit Barnawal were injured in the firing, said superintendent of Police Giridih Akhlesh V Varier.
The injured persons were admitted in the local hospital.The reason of the killing is not yet clear but the SP maintained that the rebels were afraid of growing popularity of the government schemes and in anguish they were taking such steps. In 2005 also the Maoists had killed 17 persons in the Bhelwaghati.