KATHMANDU, Feb 6 - 10 persons including Nepali Congress lawmaker Dilendra Prasad Badu, who were injured in Maoist attack, were airlifted to the capital Wednesday for treatment.

The NC activists were injured in a clash after the Maoist cadres tried to foil the NC’s village election campaign at Latinath VDC in Darchula district on Tuesday.

The injured were airlifted from Gokule, six-hour walk away from the incident site, to the capital this morning in a chopper.

According to Darchula Chief District Officer Yagya Raj Bohara, NC leader Badu has received critical injuries in lower parts of his body and other activists have been severely injured in the confrontation.

The team of NC activists had reached Reel village to campaign for the Constituent Assembly (CA) elections.    

The Maoist cadres picketed the house of a local, Mohan Singh Dhami, where the NC team were having launch and attacked them.

During the scuffle, the Maoists torched 12 houses of the villages including Dhami’s apart from looting a rifle, a pistol and a communication set from the police, said police Inspector Amar Bahadur Bom.