Naxals trigger twin blasts, destroy culvert

By C.B.Singh
Rayagada, Dec. 20: Maoist rebels on Sunday night blew up a culvert by triggering two successive landmine blasts at Dhepaguda near Podapadar disrupting vehicular movement between Koraput and Rayagada district.
The intensity of the blasts was so high that the culvert turned into a heap of concrete rubbles and five-feet deep hole was created on the road.
Sources said the ultras, who had killed a local man last week brandinghim as a police agent, triggered blasts to register their protest about setting up of a BSF camp in the area.
The security personnel have cordoned of the area and launched combing operation.
In yet another development, a joint-team of West Bengal and Orissa police arrested three hardcore Maoists from from Jhauri and Telia forests on the borders of the two states.
“Acting on tip off, security personnel from Orissa and West Bengal raided Jhauri and Telia, destroyed a camp run by the rebels and arrested three ultras. Three rifles, 14 live cartridges and 21 gelatin sticks were seized from them,” Mayurbhanj superintendent of police Dayal Gangwar told reporters at Baripada.
Mr Gangawar added that the three Maoist leaders - Kishore, Ranjan and Dipa – who were running the camp – managed to flee the spot.
The arrested ultras were identified as Umakanta Bera of Pachurakhuara and Subash Badhuka of Badatanga villages under Nayagram police station and Rupaka Mahanta of Ramchandrapur village under Jhargram police station in West Bengal.
The SP said the apprehended rebels were Gopiballavpur and Nayangram area of West
Bengal’s West Midnapore district and Suliapada and Chandia area of Orissa’s Mayurbhanj district.
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