Information About Incident 41719-80072-199143 in Hugli India

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PTI reports that two brothers were among three persons killed by suspected Maoists in the West Midnapore District, Police said on January 3. Around 40 persons, suspected to be Maoists, stormed into the house of one Anath Singh (40) and Siteshwar Singh, 35, at Shyamnagar village in Belpahari and chopped off their heads in the night of January 2, they said.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: West Midnapore Shyamnagar Belpahari
• Matched District: Hugli
• Actgroup: kill
• Actor: by suspected Maoists in the West Midnapore District
• Subject: three persons

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PTI reports that two brothers were among three persons killed by suspected Maoists in the West Midnapore District, Police said on January 3. Around 40 persons, suspected to be Maoists, stormed into the house of one Anath Singh (40) and Siteshwar Singh, 35, at Shyamnagar village in Belpahari and chopped off their heads in the night of January 2, they said. The Police recovered the dead bodies in the morning of January 3. In another incident, a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-Marxist) activist Jhantu Patra, a resident of Bamal village in Lalgarh, was shot dead allegedly by Maoists in the night of December 2, the Police said. With these cases, the total number of killings in the District has now gone up to 65 since December.

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