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Policeman Burned Alive by Extremists in Eastern India
A policeman was burned alive and five of his colleagues wounded by leftist extremists who attacked a police post in India's eastern state of Jharkand, police said on Sunday.
Jharkand police chief T.P. Sinha said armed rebels attacked the police post in Koderma district on Saturday.
"They dragged a police constable to a nearby wooden pole where he was tied and beaten before being set on fire," Sinha told Reuters.
He said the rebels exploded more than 40 crude bombs and fired some 75 rounds on the police post before fleeing with arms, ammunition and money from the post.
The attack followed the killing of 12 people, including 11 federal police personnel, by MCC rebels in the state last week.
leftist guerrillas virtually run a parallel government in thousands of villages in 14 of the 18 districts of the mineral-rich state, which was created last November.
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