AP: Little impat of Maoist day-long bandh

Vijayawada: The day-long bandh called by the outlawed CPI (Maoist), to protest the recent encounter in the Andhra-Odisha border zone that left at least 24 ultras dead, had little impact in Andhra Pradesh today.

Police, however, stepped up security measures in the tribal-inhabited agency areas of the state as a precautionary measure.

According to police, no untoward incident was reported till noon.

There was an uneasy silence in the agency villages in Visakhapatnam district that border Odisha where the outlaws normally move about.

Visakhapatnam (Rural) Superintendent of Police Rahul Dev Sharma told PTI over phone that everything remained normal as the bandh call had no impact.