A group of Maoists ransacked a contractor’s camp by setting several vehicles on fire at lakris under Kasipur block in Rayagada district late on Friday night.
According to reports, 80 to 100 Maoists stormed into the camp at around 11 pm and threatened the workers to leave the site. later, the Red rebels torched four tractors, a JCB machine and two tippers at the camp. They also destroyed a water tank at the spot.
The Maoists had earlier threatened the company, which had set up the contractor camp for construction of a road in the area.
Some Maoist posters were seized from the spot in which the ultras opposed the Narendra Modi Government at the Centre and the Naveen Patnaik Government in the State. This apart, the Maoists warned police not to rope in informers in villages to know about their presence and movement, sources said.