Maoists Torch Rail Office on Second Day of Bandh

Even on the second day of their bandh, Maoists continued to indulge in violence, setting on fire a rail office in Bihar’s Lakhisarai district after briefly taking six officials hostage, and in neighbourhood Jharkhand, blasting block offices and telecom towers besides bombing a school.

In an attack at midnight, nearly 150 rebels barged into Banshipur railway station in the important Patna-Kiul-Jhajha section under the Danapur division of the East Central Railway and set ablaze a railway panel room besides destroying the traffic control system, said railway authorities.