A woman anganwadi assistant was killed by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on suspicion of being a police informer, an official said on Saturday.
He said that the incident took place on Friday night in Timapur village under Basaguda police station.
According to preliminary information, some unknown Naxalites entered the house of 45-year-old Lakshmi Padam of the village and strangled her to death in front of her family. They threw the body in the yard and escaped, said the police officer.
After reporting about this, the police team reached the spot and the body was sent for post-mortem, he said.
A pamphlet issued by the Mudded Area Committee of the Maoists was found at the spot, in which they accused the woman of acting as a police informer, he said.
He said that a search operation has been launched in the area to find the attackers.
Along with this incident, more than 60 people have been killed by Naxalites so far this year in different places of Bastar division comprising seven districts including Bijapur, police said.