A group of Maoists set road construction equipments worth Rs40 lakh on fire late on Monday night after attacking a camp of a contractor at lakhanpur in Bargarh district.
According to reports, the leftwing extremists arrived at the camp late in the night and asked the workers there to leave the place. Then, they set a JCB machine, two tractors and a mixture machine on fire.Following the information, police rushed to the spot and began a search operation to nab the ultras.
The posters and leaflets issued by the Balangir-Bargarh Mahasamud Divisional Committee of the CPI (Maoist) asked the people to boycott the ensuing elections. It was the second incident of the Maoists in Ambavona block in the district.On March 31, they had entered the forest range office of lakhanpur and looted two pistols from the office.