Community hall blown up in Bokaro

Maoists blew up a vacant community hall at Penk village in Bokaro district to prevent the security forces from using it as a make shift camp during anti-naxal operations in the area.

Maoists blew up a vacant community hall at Penk village in Bokaro district to prevent the security forces from using it as a make shift camp during anti-naxal operations in the area.

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Armed cadre of the CPI (Maoist) on Monday night blew up the community hall with land mines, Assistant Superintendent of Police Kranti Kumar told reporters in Bokaro on Tuesday.

The Maoists have been destroying school buildings, panchayat buildings and other government structures in the villages to prevent the security forces from using them during patrolling and anti-Maoist operations.