Maoists attack Bihar railway station (Lead)
June 16th, 2011 - 12:55 pm ICT by IANSPatna, June 16 (IANS) Maoists Thursday set ablaze a portion of a railway station and blew up five mobile phone towers during a 24-hour shutdown called by them to protest the arrest of one of their top leaders in Bihar, police said.
Around 40-50 armed rebels attacked Nadaul railway station in Jehanabad district, about 50 km from here, on the Patna-Gaya route. Besides ransacking the station, they set afire a portion of the booking counter and the panel room, police said.
“Most of the documents in the two rooms were damaged,” Nadaul’s station master Rajesh Kumar told IANS over telephone.
The rebels took some railway officials as hostage for nearly three hours.
“They forcibly took me… I walked for half an hour with them and later they freed me,” said Rajesh Kumar, one of the hostages.
They also blew up five mobile towers in Imamganj of Gaya district, about 100 km from here.
Unconfirmed reports suggests they attacked a police station in Gaya, besides another tower in Aurangabad district.
The rebels are protesting the arrest of Jagdish Yadav alias Jagdish Master, politburo member of the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist). He was arrested June 12 from Gaya after evading arrest for over a decade.
He carried a reward of Rs.2 lakh on his head and was a Maoist think-tank
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