Naxals targeted a bus ferrying nearly 30 jawans with an improvised explosive device (IED) in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur, leaving two of them dead and five injured, the second attack today ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the district on Saturday.
The encounter comes three days after two Naxals, including a woman, were gunned down by the security forces in an exchange of fire in insurgency-hit Sukma district on Thursday.
The Maoists uprooted tracks between Bhansi and Bacheli, leading to the derailment of six wagons and the engine of the goods train, a senior police official told PTI.
Assistant Constable Raju Lekam died after he was attacked with sharp-edged weapons by suspected rebels at the weekly market under Jangla police station limits this evening, a district police official told PTI.
The arrested Maoists were active as members of the Dandakaranya Adivasi Kisan Majdoor Sangthan (DAKMS), a front organisation of the Naxals, he said.
The abducted ASM called up Maldah DRM in the morning saying Maoists have threatened to kill them if trains continue plying on Masudan track. All passengers have been requested to take other alternatives as a precautionary measure.
As many as 12,000 people have lost their lives in Maoist violence over the last two decades.
The Uttar Pradesh police on Saturday arrested six people including a top Naxalite from an apartment in Noida. According to a UP police top official, the arrested commander was on the most wanted list and
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