Bhubaneswar:
He was 15, and he was alone at home when they came looking for his father. The Naxals - there were reportedly 30 of them - tied his wrists together, and then they went at him with a knife. He bled to death, near his house in a small village on the Orissa-Bengal border.
The Naxals reportedly wanted to punish the boy's father, who they suspect is a police informant.
The Handibhanga village in Orissa's Mayurbhanj district lies in Naxal heartland. Five days ago, two Naxals were arrested here.
As revenge, the Naxals set the Home Guard's house on fire. The Home Guard, or Gram Rakshi, is the village policeman who is given a daily allowance. The Naxals believed that he had provided the local police with the information that led to the arrests of their comrades.