Naxals torch 3 vehicles engaged in sand mining

Suspected Naxals today set on fire three vehicles, including two tipper trucks engaged in sand mining, in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Bijapur district, police said.

The vehicles were deployed for extracting sand from Indravati river at Magarnar village under Bhairamgarh police station limits, superintendent of police K L Dhruv told PTI.

The vehicles belonged to a local person.

No official complaint have been lodged yet, but security personnel were sent to the spot, he said.