Maoist violence: 3 villagers killed in Jharkhand

The Maoist in Jharkhand killed three villagers in Tamar block, which is nearly 70 kilometers from the state capital, the police said.

Ranchi: The Maoist in Jharkhand killed three villagers in Tamar block, which is nearly 70 kilometers from the state capital, the police said. The three villagers reportedly collected money in the name of Maoists, which infuriated the extremist wing of the leftist in the state.

Purportedly, on Sunday night the Maoist abducted the three villagers from Parasi village in Tamar block. Their bodies were recovered today from the forest area of Tamar. Taking the responsibility for the killing, the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) said in pamphlets left near the bodies: "Anyone who will extort money in the name of our organization will meet the same fate."

Maoist rebels are active in 18 of the 24 districts of the state. In last seven years more than 1,200 people including civilians and rebels have been killed.

Blast railway track, SDO office

In a violent reaction to the arrest of five cadres on May 30, the Maoist in Bihar today blasted a railway track, Sub-Divisional Officer(SDO) office and looted foodgrains in eastern districts of the state. Since midnight, Maoist had also called on a 24 hour bandh in five districts of the state to protest the arrest of their five comrades, including a member of its Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and north Chhattisgarh special area committee Sunil Marandi in Lakhisarai District of Bihar.

Superintendent of Railway Police, Jamalpur, Vimal Kumar briefed the press that traffic on Patna-Howrah line was disrupted when Naxalites blasted the up track between Narganjo and Ghorparan stations in Jamui district around 3.20 am. The cargo van of Poorvanchal Express, which happened to cross the breached track soon after the blast, got derailed, but no casualty was reported.

Several trains, including Howrah-Delhi Janata Express, Howrah-Danapur Express, Tata-Gorakhpur Express, Tata-Danapur Express and Amritsar-Danapur Express, were stranded at various stations, railway sources said. The restoration work has started and it would take a few hours before normal traffic resumes, sources said.

Simultaneously, over a hundred Maoists blew up a portion of the office of Kharagpur Sub-Divisional Officer. Though no casualty was reported as nobody was present at the time of the incident, a room of the SDO's office was completely destroyed. The Naxalites also looted several sacks of foodgrains from an adjoining Food Corporation of India godown in Munger, District SP Shalin informed.

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