Kasargod: Intelligence department has sounded the police that naxals have been making efforts to re-assert their presence in some districts of Kerala. Based on this information, the policemen are on high alert in five districts including Kasargod about naxal activities. The police have been told to be extremely vigilant in Wayanad, Palakkad, Kozhikode, Kasargod and Kannur districts. There are chances of flash strikes by naxals and as such, there is a need to be on high alert in the areas adjoining northern forest areas, the intelligence reports have warned.
Because of perceived threats of naxal attacks, Thunder Bolt team which is specialized in handling naxal menace, is being deployed in the border areas where chances of naxal attack are predicted. Two days back, an armed gang of naxals had torched two forest department outposts at Nilamboor Peekottupadam in Malapuram district, abducted three watch and ward staff, and released them later.
The policemen, who showed to these persons the photos of some suspected naxal activists, they identified their abductors as Asha from Karnataka, Sundari from Tamil Nadu, Shandiwar Parthiban, and Soman from Wayanad.
