SAA event in Kharkhand, Latehar area, India on Fri 21st October 2022

Three persons working at a railway construction site were shot at allegedly by cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) in Latehar District of Jharkhand on October 21, reports NDTV. The incident happened at Malhan Panchayat (village level local self-Government institution) under Chandwa Police Station area where construction was underway for a railway line, Police said. About two dozen armed Maoists reached the site around 3 pm and started indiscriminate firing, they added. According to those present at the site said that the Maoists had told the construction workers that the work cannot go on without giving them extortion money. Civil engineer Shivkumar Yadav and labourers Bireshar Yadav and Vikas Yadav, engaged by a private contractor, received bullet wounds in the incident, said Superintendent of Police (SP), Anjani Anjan, adding that Maoist pamphlets were recovered from the site. "We are investigating the involvement of Maoists in the incident," he said.