KANNUR: The armed Maoist group who reached Ambayathodu at Kottiyoor has been identified. The team led by Maoist leader C P Moideen, who had been searching by the police for years, arrived Saturday evening carrying guns. There were six persons in the team including a woman.

They shouted slogans that RSS is spreading communalism, burning to death those working against them and Modi supporting it. They distributed pamphlets in the town. The team left after buying provisions and vegetables for Rs 300 from a shop there. Their clippings have been captured in the CCTV installed in the shop. The locals said they spoke in Malayalam. They stuck some posters on the walls. The police have started an investigation on the incident.