Maoists blow up rail track in Orissa
March 23rd, 2010 - 9:58 am ICT by IANSBhubaneswar, March 23 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas blew up a rail track in Orissa’s Sundergarh district early Tuesday, an official said.
They blew up the rail track near Bishra station in the district, hitting rail services in the Chakradharpur division on the Howrah-Mumbai route.
“The tracks were blown up at around 1.30 a.m. using land mines. Five wagons of a freight train derailed,” said V.K. Srivastav, senior divisional commercial manager of the Chakradharpur division.
Rail officials have reached the spot and repair work has been going on since night.
“Repair work is going on in full swing and we are trying to normalize the train service as soon as possible,” he added.
Sundergarh district over 500 hundred km from here.
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