Maoists blow up school building in Bihar's Gaya

Gaya: Suspected Maoist rebels blew up a school building in Bihar's Gaya district and left behind pamphlets denouncing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the National Population Register (NPR), the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the "fascist BJP government", a senior police official said on Wednesday.

Rajeev Mishra, the Senior Superintendent of Police of Gaya, said nobody was injured in the blast that razed the empty school building in Bankey Bazaar police station area late Tuesday night. A CRPF contingent was stationed there till recently.

"A team of 153 Battalion of CRPF had been camping in the area since 18 March last year when naxals had carried out an attack ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. They had been putting up at Sonedaha High School and shifted to their own camp in the thick of the jungle nearby on 8 February," Mishra said.