Raipur: Naxalites fired at three CRPF camps in Chhattisgarh simultaneously on Wednesday night, prompting the troops to retaliate but no casualty was reported.
The firing which started at around 2130 hours at the CRPF camps at Narayanpur, Dantewada and Bijapur districts, went on for an hour, senior CRPF officials said adding, it was carried out by Naxalites to "provoke" the troops.
At Narayanpur, which saw an ambush by Maoists on June 29 killing 27 security personnel, Naxals fired at the 39th battalion camp of the force near Edka village.
The other two firing incidents took place at Polampalli in Dantewada and Basaguda in Bijapur districts.
"Ten rounds have been fired from both the sides and the firing took place from a distance at Narayanpur," district Superintendent of Police Rahul Bhagat said.
The Naxals fled the sites when security forces returned fire, officials said.
PTI reports from Bhubaneshwar: Heavily-armed Maoists attacked a police station and a forest office setting them on fire on Wednesday night and abducted a policeman in Orissa's Keonjhar district.
Around 80 Maoists, armed with automatic weapons, stormed into Daitari town, about 220km from here, and targeted the police station and the nearby forest office opening indiscriminate fire, police sources said.
The seven policemen, who were on duty at the police station at the time of the incident, retaliated triggering a brief exchange of fire with the Maoists, after which the badly outnumbered men in uniform fled.
Assistant Sub Inspector Umesh Chandra Marandi has gone missing after the incident and is feared to have been abducted by the Naxals, the sources said.
The Maoists ransacked the police station and the forest office, where only two employees were present at the time of the attack, before setting them ablaze, the sources said.
The incident came on the first day of the two-day strike called by Maoists across the country to protest the killing of their top leader Cherupuri Raj Kumar by the police in Andhra Pradesh's Adilabad district on July 1. PTI
