Bhubaneswar, Jun 7(UNI) Police today arrested eight suspected Maoists from two different Naxal dominated areas of Orissa. In the first incident, acting on a tip-off that some Maoists were travelling in a bus from Manoharpur-Bonai, the police intercepted it near Bandhamunda in Sundargarh district and checked all the 41 passengers. Later, police released all the passengers except six. Police seized two pistols from the six suspected Maoists who were on their way to Rourkela from Jharkhand. Interrogation of the six accused was still continuing. Police claimed that all the six suspected Maoists were involved in the murder of Police Sub-Inspector Ajit Bardhan and BJP leader Sukra Oram. In the second incident, security personnel arrested two women Maoists from the Gudari forest area in Rayagada district during a combing operation and seized some posters and Maoists literature from their possession.
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