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Naxalites continue to ravage Gadchiroli in Maharashtra with another gram panchayat (GP) coming under attack on Friday night.
The raid was carried out by a group of about 50 Naxalites who came over from across Chhattisgarh to Parsangondi village in Etapalli tehsil and attacked the GP building late in the night.
Inspector General of Police (Anti-Naxalite Operations), Pankaj Gupta, said the villagers, however, put up a fight, forcing the Naxals to retreat. ‘‘As a result, the building was only partly damaged,’’ he said.
Naxalites have, of late, stepped up activities in the district in tune with their strategy in all Naxal-affected states. ‘‘For us it is a border, for them it is not. Relatively, however, their activities in Chhattisgarh and AP are on a much higher scale and in-depth. In Maharashtra, we have always restricted them to the borders,’’ Gupta said.
