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MCC kills four; injures Samata leader in Jharkhand

Militants of the banned Maoist Communist Centre hacked to death four persons including a Samata Party worker and injured the party's district unit working president and seven others at Bundu block of Ranchi district early Wednesday, police said in Ranchi.

The militants ultras dragged the victims out of their houses, a few kilometres from Bundu police station, at about 1 am and took them to an unknown destination. The bodies of four of them were found later in nearby Tirilli village and Kathartoli locality of the same block, police said.

Samata Party worker Basant Das was one of the deceased while the injured persons included the party's Ranchi district unit working president Gobardhan Oraon. This is the first time that Samata Party activists have became target of the MCC.

The injured were admitted to the Rajendra Medical College and Hospital here where the doctors described their condition as stable.

Samata Party's Jharkhand unit president and Excise Minister Ramesh Singh Munda rushed to the spot and alleged that delayed action by the police led to the killings.

"Despite being informed that the militants had dragged some persons out of their houses and taken them to an unknown destination, the police did not act immediately," he said adding while the incident took place at 1 am, the police came at about 3.30 am.

Jharkhand Director General of Police T P Sinha said senior police officials were camping at Bundu. The cause of the attack was yet to be ascertained.

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