Women Naxalites have set blaze three machines engaged in road construction work in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district, police said on Sunday.
No one was injured in the incident which took place on Saturday evening between Kamteda and Gattakal villages under Partapur police station limits, about 200 km from the state capital Raipur, Additional Superintendent of Police (Pakhanjore) Dhirendra Patel said.
The road construction work was being carried out under the Prime Minister Gram Sadak Yojna.
According to preliminary information, a group of armed women Naxalites, clad in uniform, stormed the construction site, threatened the workers to stop the work and snatched their mobile phones, the official said.
