Maoists have gunned down a watchman at a road construction site in Odisha's Kandhamal district suspecting him to be a police informer, police said. The armed Maoists struck at a contractor's camp at Patiamba, about 18 km from Phulbani, under the jurisdiction of Phulbani Sadar police station late on Saturday night, said.

Kandhamal Superintendent of Police, Prateek Singh. They also set ablaze three tractors, a road roller and a truck engaged in the construction of a road under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY). The ultras then took away the watchman, Rabindra Mallick, from the camp to the nearby forest and shot him dead.