GAYA, May 26: An armed suqad of the banned Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) gunned down a farmer and looted property worth Rs five lakh at Kasmadih village under Dumaria police station of Gaya district late last night, police sources said.The sources said here today that the marauders set on fire the house of the affluent farmer and decamped with the booty.

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