Six Naxals, including two women cadres, were killed in an encounter in the wee hours on Sunday in Govindgaon near Jimalgatta forest in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, police said.

Appeals and assurances of safety by the Karnataka government notwithstanding, people from North East continued to flee the state in hordes for the third consecutive day on Friday, driven by rumours of impending attacks by Muslim groups.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said the recent blasts in Pune were a reminder that more needed to be done to improve internal security although success has been witnessed on this front in many areas.