Maoist rebels trigger powerful blast in Baster

Maoist rebels on Friday triggered a powerful blast on National Highway 16 in an attempt to target a road opening party of the district police personnel near Bardela village,about 25 kilometers away from district headquarters of Bijapur in tribal Bastar division.

“The blast took place before the team of security personnel reached the spot. It is suspected that the rebels were trying to target the road opening party but the timing went wrong”,police sources in Bastar said. All the security personnel are safe,they added.

Maoists had gone on a rampage at many places in Bastar division on the second day of Naxalite sponsored bandh on Thursday. The rebels unleashed an attack on a police station,stormed a Congress leader’s house at Nakulnar in Dantewada,blew up culverts at many places and also stabbed a police constable to death in Bijapur district.