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Naxal blast house of AP's handloom minister

Extremists of the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist-People's Liberation Group blasted the house of Andhra Pradesh Handloom Minister Nimmala Kistappa in Perumallapalli village in Anantapur district in the wee hours today.

The police said about ten militants, who went to the house of the minister, asked the inmates to come out and blasted it using explosives. The house was fully damaged. Before fleeing, the Naxalites left a note stating that the minister and others in the village were indulging in the sale of illicit arrack.

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