By IANS
Raipur : About 250 armed Maoists have damaged three school buildings in a village in Chhattisgarh’s trouble-torn Bijapur district, police said Saturday.
Armed with axes, spades and other weapons, the Maoists stormed into Murdanda village in Bijapur district in the early hours of Saturday and badly damaged two school buildings and a small school-cum hostel.
Almost 60 percent of the buildings of the three government-run schools have been damaged, police sources told IANS.
A case has been registered in Awapalli police station, about 510 km south of state capital Raipur.
Rebels burned books and papers at the schools and took away food grains stored in one of the schools before escaping.
Chhattisgarh is one of the states hardest hit by Maoist violence in recent years, where about 50,000 people, mostly tribals, have already deserted their villages in the Bastar region, including the Bijapur district.
They have now settled down in 23 different makeshift government-run relief camps.