Wednesday, April 19, 2000,
Chandigarh, India
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Daras
accomplice arrested
BARIPADA
(Orissa), April 18 (PTI) The police has arrested one more
person in connection with the gruesome killing of
Australian missionary Graham Sewart Staines and his two
minor sons in January last year, official sources said
here today. Abhi Mahant, an accomplice of Dara Singh, the
main accused in the incident already in custody, was
nabbed by a special police squad from Sudarshanpur
village in Baripada district yesterday, the sources said.
Mahant carried a reward of Rs 50,000 on his head.
5 Naxals shot
dead
HYDERABAD,
April 18 (UNI) Five Naxalites belonging to the
Peoples War Group were killed in different
encounters with the police in Andhra Pradesh yesterday.
The police said here today that two motor cycle-borne
Naxalites were killed in an encounter near Mustipalli
village in Karimnagar district. The central organiser of
Janasakthi, Dalam P. Ganga Reddy, was killed in an
encounter near Lingampet in the same district. Two
Naxalites belonging to Sikasa, a frontal organisation of
the PWG, were killed at Dugnepalli village in Adilabad
district.
Ultras surrender
GUWAHATI,
April 18 (PTI) As many as 48 militants belonging
to the ULFA and the NDFB outfits have surrendered with
arms before village elders in lower Assams Darrang
district, district administration sources said today.
Among the ultras who surrendered yesterday, 47 were from
the ULFA the sources told PTI. Stating that the surrender
was organised by the public, the sources said the rebels
of the banned underground outfits were scheduled to meet
the Deputy Commissioner today for receiving their formal
surrender certificates.
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