15 massacred in carnages

By Our Staff Correspondent

PATNA, JUNE 27. At least 15 persons, including a woman and four children, were massacred in three separate incidents of carnages reported from East Champaran, Khagari and Lakhisarai districts yesterday.

According to the police, bandits in East Champaran district dragged out at least nine people from Mananpur village under Govindganj police station on the pretext of settling a village dispute but later forcibly made them board a boat. However, two of them managed to escape. The other seven were taken, hands tied, to the middle of the Gandak river, presently in spate, where the dacoits killed six of them, one by one, and dumped them into the river last night.

The seventh one, Shivnath Mahio, taking a risk, jumped into the river, notwithstanding the handicap of his hands being tied. As luck would have it, the currents brought him close to the bank, where fishermen pulled him out .

In the second incident, the wife of Suresh Singh and his four children were killed over a land dispute.

The third incident of carnage was reported from Lakhisarai. Over a dozen criminals attacked Rajpur panchayat under Piri Bazaar and shot dead four people of the same caste.

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