Following these incidents, police have sounded an alert and additional police force has been deployed, officials said.
Naxals went on rampage at several places on the first day of the two-day bandh called by them killing two persons, including an abducted special police officer (SPO), set on fire some vehicles and ruptured railway tracks.
Following these incidents, police have sounded an alert and additional police force has been deployed, officials said.
Senior police officials told PTI that in the Naxal-infested Dantewada district, a person named Kawasi Dev was shot dead by the Naxals assuming him to be an SPO, whereas an abducted SPO Ramaiyya was killed in Bijapur.
"Kawasi Dev was killed by the naxalites in Dantewada as they mistook him to be a police officer. In Balud village, they set on fire a pockland machine, a mixture machine and a truck," Ankit Garg, superintendent of police (Dantewada district) said.
Police officers in Bijapur said, "The body of SPO Ramaiyya, who was abducted by naxalites from Cherpal village on May 18, was thrown on the road."
The violence has affected normal vehicular traffic and rail movement in the state.
"The only passenger train that runs in Dantewada district is suspended for the time being, even though the goods trains are running as usual. In order to disrupt the rail traffic, the naxalites also ruptured the rail tracks at some points, which were detected and restored," Garg said.
Police officers said that while the traffic movement in the urban parts of Dantewada district was smooth, disturbances have been reported from the interior areas.
In Bastar, the Naxal bandh has created fear and the market has remained closed. At some places, the naxalites have also felled trees on the roads to disrupt the traffic, police said.
The Naxals have given call for a two-day bandh for Saturday and Sunday in Naxal-dominated areas in different states protesting against the arrest of their 'central committee' members from Bihar.
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