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Andhra Pradesh
By Our Staff Reporter
According to police sources, 10 naxals descended on the Rasi Cement Factory's magazine situated on the banks of the river Krishna at Irikigudem under the Wadapalli police station. The magazine is about five km away from the main office of the factory. The naxals tied the hands of the two security personnel who were guarding the room and broke open it with iron rods. Three of them went in side and packed the detonators. After the 20-minute operation, they ordered the security personnel to follow them till they reached the safer zone. The naxals let them off on the banks of the river and crossed the waters under cover of darkness. While two of the naxals were carrying tapanchas, two militants were in inebriated condition. The members of the Naguleti dalam which is active in the neighboring Guntur district were involved in the raid, police said. A senior police officer here sought to allay fears that the dalam would be strengthened with the stolen explosives. He said that the naxals took away the slurry explosives. "Unlike gelatin sticks, slurry explosives do deactivate within a month,'' he added. Special police parties have been sent to the Wadapally area to track down the naxals. It may be recalled that a 20-member naxal group made a vain bid to take away the explosives belonging to the Nagarjuna Cement factory at Gundlapally in Mathapally mandal in the wee hours of Thursday. Extremist killed: A report from Karimnagar said a naxalite belonging to the Communist Party of United States of India (CPUSI) was killed in encounter with the police in Chintakhani village of Kataram mandal on Saturday. Police sources said that on credible information about the CPUSI naxalites arrival to the forest to extort money from a tendu leaf contractor in the region, a police team waited for the naxalites in the nearby bushes, while some other policemen went to the forests posing as tendu leaf collection labourers. Three naxalites belonging to the Gautham squad went to the forest and one person along with a tapancha visited the area where tendu leaf collection was in process and asked for the contractor. The manager who was present at the site said that the contractor had not arrived due to some work. When the workers, that included policemen, asked for his identity, he claimed that he was a naxalite and showed his tapancha. Immediately, workers picked an argument with him for demanding party funds from the contractor and denying their minimum wages. Sensing trouble, the naxalite took to heels. The policemen, who were in workers' uniform, chased him. The naxalite then opened fire with his weapon and the police retaliated the fire killing him. The other naxalites who were at a distance also took to heels. The other police party chased but in vain. The slain naxalite was identified as dalam member, B Durgaiah alias Ramesh.
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