Raipur: Naxals went on the rampage at several places on the first day of the two-day bandh called by them killing two persons, including an abducted Special Police Officer (SPO), setting on fire some vehicles and rupturing railway tracks.
Following these incidents, police have sounded an alert and additional police force has been deployed, officials said.
Senior police officials told PTI that in the Naxal-infested Dantewada district, a person named Kawasi Dev was shot dead by the Naxals mistaking him to be an SPO, and an abducted SPO Ramaiyya was killed in Bijapur.
"Kawasi Dev was killed by the Naxalites in Dantewada as they mistook him to be a police officer. In Balud village, they set on fire a pockland machine, a mixture machine and a truck," Ankit Garg, Superintendent of Police (Dantewada district) said.
Police officials in Bijapur said the body of SPO Ramaiyya, who was abducted by Naxalites from Cherpal village on May 18, was thrown on the road.
The violence has affected movement of normal vehicular traffic and rail movement in the state.
"The only passenger train that runs in Dantewada district is suspended for the time being, even though the goods trains are running as usual. In order to disrupt the rail traffic, the Naxalites also ruptured the rail tracks at some points, which were detected and restored," Garg said.
Police officials said while traffic movement in urban parts of Dantewada district was smooth, disturbances have been reported from interior areas.
In Bastar, the Naxal-sponsored bandh has created fear and the market has remained closed. At some places, the Naxalites have felled trees on the roads to disrupt traffic, police said.
The Naxals have given call for a two-day bandh for Saturday and Sunday in Naxal-dominated areas in different states protesting against the arrest of their 'central committee' members from Bihar.
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