Eight more graves found near Nandigram

WHAT LIES BENEATH? On December 6, human remains were found in these graves in Khejuri-Talatula.

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New Delhi: Nearly a fortnight human remains were found in graves in Khejuri-Talatula near Nandigram, the CRPF on Thursday found eight more graves in the CPM stronghold.

Officials fear three of these structures might contain human remains. News agency PTI quotes CRPF sources as saying the three graves found at Mansinghber on Thursday evening could be of women as rags of what appeared to be a saree, bits of bangles and a necklace were found from there.

The agency reports a 25-member CRPF team cordoned off the area where the graves were found. An agency correspondent, who went to the spot on Thursday, saw burnt wood and portions of bicycle tyres lying around the shallow graves.

Locals in Mansighber alleged bodies of CPM supporters killed while making bombs at a house on October 28 were burnt at the spot and buried.

On December 6, human remains were found from graves found in Khejuri-Talutala road. Both these areas saw a spate of violence between CPM cadres and those opposed to the proposed SEZ project.

Anup Patra and Sukdeb Patra, both CPM supporters and residents of the village, were quoted as saying by PTI 19 Marxist supporters had been killed while making bombs.

After the explosion, the bodies were taken away in two vehicles by Marxist supporters, he added.

One of the vehicles, with five bodies, offloaded them at the field where they were doused with kerosene and cremated on hastily-built pyres built of wood and bicycle tyres, Anup said.

That same night, the bodies were dug up and taken away, he said.