India | Posted on Jun 21, 2006 at 01:35pm IST

Naxals kill BJP leader in Chhattisgarh

Press Trust Of India

Raipur: Naxalites on Wednesday killed three persons, including a senior BJP leader in separate incidents of violence in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.

BJP Mandal President, Bansidhar Gupta, was axed to death by Naxalites near Taragaon, about 450 km from Raipur, police said.

Gupta and a village guard were riding a motorcycle on their way from Dhodai village to Orchcha when the Naxals attacked them.

The village guard fled when the two were attacked, but Gupta was hacked to death.

Gupta was also an elected representative to the Dhodai block panchayat, police said.

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