While 63-year-old Sukku Patel was killed at Pandewar village under Faraspal police station limits, another villager, identified as Chitranjan, was murdered in Gondpal village under Dantewada police station area, Dantewada SP Kamlochan Kashyap told PTI.
As per the preliminary investigation, a group of ultras stormed into the house of Patel in the wee hours and dragged him out saying he was a police informer, he said, adding they attacked Patel with sharp-edged weapons killing him on the spot.
Police personnel were dispatched to the spot and the bodies were sent for postmortem.
A combing operation was launched in the region following the killings, the SP added.
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