Overview

• Police said shikshadoot Laxman Barse, 30, was killed with sharp-edged weapons at his home in Silger on Wednesday evening.
• Local accounts report about 20 attackers dragged him from the house and assaulted relatives who tried to intervene.
• The attack occurred roughly three kilometres from a police camp, and investigators said the motive has not been formally established.
• This is the fifth killing of a temporary teacher in the region since September last year, pointing to a pattern of targeting community educators.
• Barse’s brother was reportedly murdered by Maoists six months earlier, and this year’s civilian deaths in Bastar have risen to about 32.