Bhubaneswar, Oct. 21 -- Malkangiri: In a macabre act, a group of armed Maoists reportedly killed a man by slitting his throat and thrashed two others mercilessly suspecting them to be police informers at Khajuriguda area under Jodamba police station limits on Wednesday.

The move from the ultras came close on the heels of recovery of seven Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) by the Border Security Force (BSF) jawans from 'Swabhiman Anchal' on Monday evening.

Acting on a tip-off, the BSF personnel had launched a combing operation in the 'Swabhimaan Anchal' along the Odisha-Andhra Pradesh border on Monday evening and detected the improvised explosive devices planted on a road.

A bomb disposal squad reached the spot and defused the IEDs ear...