Breaking a long lull in their activities, Maoists on Monday struck in the forest area of West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh killing two tribals suspecting them to be police informers.
Police said a group of armed members of the outlawed CPI (Maoist) shot dead two people in Chintoor. Police shifted the dead bodies to the Government hospital for post-mortem.
Meanwhile, in neighbouring Khammam district of Telangana, police arrested a CPI (Maoist) squad member M Umaiah alias Gautam and four militia members. District Superintendent of Police Bhaskar Rao said that they were arrested in Chennapuram village during the combing operations. The squad member was involved in three murder cases and nine other cases, he said.