According to SP malkangiri Satyabrat Bhoi, more than 100 ultras attacked the police outpost and a nearby rest house at Padia, nearly razing to the ground the two buildings using machinery they had forcibly taken from a road construction site.
According to a employee of the construction company , whom Ultras looted the mechinary said, they struck around 1 am, woke up the buldozer operator at the construction site and forced him at gunpoint to use the machine to bring down the buildings.
The BSNL tower watchman said,The naxals tried to set ablaze the battery room of a BSNL tower. when they requested them not to do so they beat him and another person up severly and tourched the battery room.
A local police officer said, before leaving the place the ultras, terrorised the local people, left posters asking people to boycott the ensuing elections and warned not to campaign for any political party and taking part in the polls would be punished.