"A police team has been dispatched to Badekaklur area in Bastar district after report of the ultras uprooting the railway track received tonight," Special Director General (Anti-Naxal Operations) Ramnivas said.
According to preliminary information, three coaches and two locomotives jumped off the track in the area which is a Naxal stronghold.
Freight trains for Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh usually pass through this route and Naxals often target them, he said.