Naxalites set on fire at least 12 vehicles engaged in road construction work in Chhattisgarh’s Kondagaon district on Thursday, police said.
The incident took place at around 1 am in Kuemari village in the Dhanora police station limits where a road is being built between Batrali and Cherbeda under the Prime Minister Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY) scheme, Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range) Sundarraj P said.
As per preliminary information, a group of Maoists reached the construction site, located 250 km from Raipur, and set ablaze the parked vehicles, he said.