| ] 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.
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