RAIPUR: Maoists have abducted seven people in the restive Sukma district, a week ahead of the insurgents’ ‘martyrs’ week’. A group of villagers who went into the forest to rescue them is also missing. While police were looking for the missing seven, a former Maoist was savagely stabbed and hacked to death around 65km away, in neighbouring Bijapur district, on Tuesday. The seven are from Kunded village in Jagargunda region, a Maoist hotbed about 500km from Raipur. They went missing on Saturday, but their families didn’t inform the cops. Even on Tuesday, when police teams set out to look for them, none of their kin had filed any complaint.