The Naxals sounded a wake-up call for Gadchiroli cops on Sunday afternoon by torching 27 vehicles at a road construction site near Lekha (Menda) village on Godalvahi-Dhanora road, some 6 km from the state highway connecting Gadchiroli and Rajnandgaon.
A group of around 40 rebels, most likely to be members of Tippagarh dalam and a platoon dalam, chased away the site supervisors before setting the vehicles afire. Reports said 20 tractors, two JCB machines, a road roller, two water tankers and two bikes were set afire. Seven more tractors were deployed at the site, but survived the arson because they had been used to take labourers to the base camp for lunch. There were no injuries or casualties in the incident. The arson came within a week of the Naxals executing a blast on Dhanora-Heti road during a police sponsored community outreach nearby.
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