Normal life in the district was affected by the State-wide dawn-to-dusk hartal called by the Popular Front of India (PFI) on Friday against raids on its offices and the arrest of its leaders.
PFI workers threw stones at a KSRTC bus heading to Kozhikode from Mananthavady at Panamaram and two private vehicles at Peechamkode in the district. The window panes of the vehicles were damaged. As many as 40 PFI activists were arrested, including 19 who were kept under preventive detention, in connection with the incidents, Wayanad District Police Chief R. Anand said.
