Members of the 40 families of Kanaguda village under Malkangiri district’s Kalimela police station, who had left their houses following Maoists’ threat three weeks ego, returned to their respective houses on Sunday.
The residents of the tribal village had gone out with belongings and livestock as Red rebels accused them of being police informers and asked them vacate the village at a meeting held there on November 1.
They threatened that anybody defying the order would be killed. Earlier, Maoists had killed two men of this remote village, Soma Madkami and Rama Marhi, on October 14 suspecting them as the police informers. Notably, on September 11 this year, about 53 villagers of Dhakadpadar in the district had also left their homes in Red rebels’ fear. Earlier top this, more than 100 tribals belonging to 60 families of the Chitrakonda cut-off area had fled their village in the first week of June.
In the recent incident, the villagers had knocked on the Malkangri Superintendent of Police for protection. They had taken refuge in a makeshift camp near the SP’s official residence.