Reds’ fireworks greet PC

Maoists blasted three mobile phone towers, ransacked a railway station and looted computers and bicycles from the Narayanpatna block office in Koraput district on the eve of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram’s visit to this district going the Lalgarh way.

Soon after arriving in Koraput around 5pm on Thursday, Chidambaram visited the anti-insurgency training centre which will get functional from August 1. He later reviewed the security situation in the Naxal-affected areas at a high-level meeting.

Chidambaram will visit Kandhamal and later meet Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday.