] HYDERABAD, India, 25 March 2003 %u2014 As protests
] against the US-led invasion continued across India
] yesterday, Maoist rebels in a southern province targeted
] global soft drink giants Coca-Cola and Pepsi, police said
] yesterday.
]
] %u201CThe exact cost of damage is still being assessed,
] but it appears the rebels targeted the soft drink giants
] and some other stores selling Indian-made foreign liquor
] to protest against the war,%u201D Anil Kumar Puneeth,
] superintendent of police, told AFP.
]
] Members of the banned People%u2019s War Group,
] India%u2019s oldest and most violent left-wing rebel
] group, destroyed hundreds of Coke bottles, blasted a
] Pepsi warehouse and attacked liquor stores in two
] districts of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh late
] Sunday.
]
] Around half a dozen armed rebels raided a warehouse
] stacked with Pepsi bottles and used explosives to raze it
] to the ground, police said.