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Naxals destroy nursery

KORAPUT: A nursery with 86,000 saplings and more than 50 trees was destroyed by naxalites at Jogipaluru village near Narayanpatna in Koraput district in the early hours of Tuesday. While the nursery was developed by the Forest Department, there was no one present guarding the nursery at the time of the attack.

They displayed banners in the nursery protesting against the killing of two top ranking Maoists in the forests of Warangal in the neighbouring State of Andhra Pradesh.

Further, the naxalites also renewed their demand for ensuring rights of tribals over the land, water and forest in the region. This was for the first time that naxalites destroyed a nursery in the block.

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