Five Maoists including a section commander were killed in separate incidents of retaliation by villagers in Nawalparasi district in the last 24 hours, reports Wednesday said.

Villagers of Suryapura beat four Maoists to death when the rebels tried to abduct a local man Wednesday morning. The dead have been identified as Bhola Choudhari, Laxmi Khanal, Bhim Harijan and Manoj Harijan. Hundreds of locals took the Maoists under control and beat them to death.

The villagers, according to reports, claimed that they resorted to such an action in reaction to growing Maoist atrocities in the village.

In a similar incident in Paklihawa of the same district Tuesday night, a Maoist section commander, Ramesh Choudhary, was beaten to death by the villagers, reports said. The villagers also took a woman Maoist under control and hand her over to the police.
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