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Naxals blast phone exchange

By Our Staff Reporter

KHAMMAM DEC. 17. People's War naxalites blasted a telephone exchange in Sampathnagar village of Bodu police station limits in the early hours of Tuesday.

According to reports reaching here, 15 armed naxalites, accompanied by an equal number of militants, entered into the exchange and blasted it using detonators around 3 a.m. Later, they set fire to part of the equipment, which was found to be intact after the blast, by dousing it with diesel collected from a generator set.

A senior BSNL officer said here that this C-Dot 256 exchange blasted by the PW was hardly one-year-old.

Residents, mostly tribals, tried to prevail upon the naxalites for sparing the telephone exchange.

Even the building in which the exchange was set up belonged to a tribal farmer. However, the naxalites did not relent. They put up a banner near the exchange claiming to have resorted to arson as part of the PGA anniversary week celebrations.

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