Maoists abduct District Collector in Bastar

Maoists pulled off an audacious kidnapping of the district collector of Sukma in southern Chhattisgarh on Saturday, killing two of his bodyguards when they tried to stop them.

The collector, Alex Paul Menon, was meeting a group of villagers for a government outreach programme.



A 2006 batch IAS officer, Menon was tracked by the Maoists as he reached Manjipara village in tribal Bastar region on Saturday afternoon, according to the police.

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