Maoist attack in Bihar

The railways track blown up by Maoists near Rafiganj railway station, Bihar.

Maoists blasted a portion of a railway track between Ismailpur and Rafiganj section in Bihar, leading to derailment of a pilot engine running ahead of the Bhubaneshwar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express.

No casualty was reported in the blast that took place late last night, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Magadh range, P K Shrivastava said.

Maoist blow up railway track in Bihar

Railway officials repairing traction wire blasted by Maoists near Rafiganj station, Bihar.

The engine of patrol train between Mughal Sarai and Gaya section derailed because of the blast thereby vanishing four meters of the railway track. Simultaneously, up and down lines were affected. The Bhubaneswar train was behind this patrol train and it was stopped. The rail transport normalized at 6 am on Wednesday, and slowly the trains will start moving," said Railway Board Chairman Arunendra Kumar.

Pilot engine for Rajdhani express which was derailed on Tuesday night after Maoists blown up tracks near Rafignaj railway station, Bihar.

"Some time back we came to know that Rajdhani was derailed due to the same reason, so we were aware about this and were cautious. This problem arises mostly in Bihar, therefore, we have already imposed alerts and restriction in the state. There were no casualties. We could save a major mishap because of the timely actions by officials. Since we are aware of this kind of inputs, so speed of trains in that area were also restricted and the track and CRPF personnel were augmented to keep a watch," said Railway Board Chairman Arunendra Kumar.

The railways track blown up by Maoists near Rafiganj railway station, Bihar, late on Tuesday night.

"We had received inputs that there will be Maoist bandh today in the village. Therefore we had taken precautionary measures of restricting the speed of train in Bihar. We made the patrol train to run before Rajdhani," said Railway Board Chairman Arunendra Kumar Kumar.

Stranded passengers of Sealdah Rajdhani Express at Gaya railway station after Maoists blew off tracks between Ismailpur and Rafiganj late on Tuesday night.

Nearly one dozen mail and Express trains including three Rajdhani Express trains have been stranded at various places between Gaya and Mughalsarai due to the incident, Chief Public Relations Officer, East Central Railway, Arvind Kumar Rajak said.

Maoist attack in Bihar

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