Jhargram,4th May : The unleashing of terror by Maoists continued in West Midnapore as the extremists targeted political workers cutting across all party lines, and three more bodies were recovered this morning, two of them from Jhargram police station area and the other from Lalgarh police station area.
Police said the bodies of one Congress leader, one CPI(M) activist and another PCPA cadre were recovered.
Bikash Mahato, Jhargram Block Congress working president, who was abducted last evening, was found murdered in a forest between Ghirtakam and Bagmura villages.
Though Congress leaders alleged that he was murdered by CPI(M) activists, SP, West Midnapore, MK Varama suspected Maoists to be behind this murder.
The victim had bullet injuries on his chest and abdomen and one of his eyes were gouged out.
In another incident, Haripada Singha, a former CPI(M) activist, who had now joined PCPA, was forcibly taken away from his residence at Fulberia village near Dahijuri under Jhargram police station by 20 to 30 armed Maoists last night.
His bullet-ridden body found at a distance this morning, police said.