Maoists blow up Orissa school building

Maoist guerrillas blew up a school building in Orissa's Malkangiri district early today.

Maoist guerrillas blew up a school building in Orissa's Malkangiri district early Tuesday.

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About 30-40 rebels blasted the school building at MV 21 village, about 640 km from Bhubaneswar, when no one was inside, a district police official told IANS.

The attack came ahead of a two-day nationwide shutdown called by the rebels from July 7 to protest the killing their top leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad in Andhra Pradesh last week.