A Canadian social worker on a bike tour of Bastar has gone missing in Chhattisgarh’s Maoist-affected Sukma district on Monday, police have said. Police say John Szlazak, who was cycling across India, generated an emergency alert on a GPS system installed in his bike on Monday. The last location of John was traced near Singanmadgu of south Sukma, near the Odisha border. “He was in south Sukma, which is the most-dangerous part of Bastar, without any intimation. They added that John is a member of Canadian organisation, Immigration Refugees and Citizenship, and came India in first week of March.

Source: Hindustan Times March 28, 2017 04:18 UTC