RANCHI: Farmers fed up with harassment at the hands of left-wing insurgents killed nine Maoist guerrillas when rebels tried to storm a village in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand. State police chief R.R. Prasad said after getting wind of an impeding attack by the Maoists, residents of Longo village armed themselves and then shot dead nine rebels and left two other insurgents critically injured. Prasad said the militants slain in the village in East Singbhoum district were members of eastern India’s powerful Peoples War Group. Many villagers have armed themselves in Jharkhand, where Maoist guerrillas, claiming to fight on behalf of landless peasants, hold sway in 14 of the mineral-rich state’s 18 districts.
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