Maoists attacked the Pirtand police station, blew up a building and torched some trucks on the Grand Trunk Road on the Dhanbad-Giridih border to protest the arrest of two of their associates here on Thursday.
Superintendent of Police A.V. Homer said Maoists started firing at the police station around 1 a.m. Police returned the fire, but there was no casualty. A block office and a Jharkhand Vikash Morcha office were destroyed.
On Wednesday, the police arrested two hardcore Naxalites, Muktar Ansari and Dasrath Majhi.