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Maoists besiege Jandaha, make abortive bid to loot bank
Nearly 200 CPI (Maoist) guerrillas virtually besieged Jandaha town, about 60 km from Patna, for a couple of hours, attacked a police station and made an abortive bid to loot a bank before retreating.The naxalites descended on Jandaha in Vaishali district just past midnight and opened a barrage of fire at the police station prompting a retaliation by the policemen. A group of naxalites then headed for Canara bank branch located in the main market and broke open the locks at the main gate after injuring a chowkidar, Vaishali Superintendent of Police Preeta Verma said from Jandaha. She claimed the naxalites, however, could not not loot the money due to timely arrival of reinforcements and beat a retreat after nearly two hours of intermittent exchange of fire with the police. Earlier, DIG (Tirhut range) Gupteshwar Pandey, who too rushed to the spot from Muzaffarpur, had said that the naxalites succeeded in looting the bank after injurying two guards. The injured chowkidar has been rushed to Hajipur, headquarters of Vaishali district, for treatment. The Maoist rebels used loudspeakers to warn the people against venturing out of their homes during the operation saying they had nothing against the public. In an audacious operation, the Maoist rebels had raided the Jehanabad sub-jail and freed nearly 400 inmates, including a large number of their cadres on 13th November last year. Posted by: john 2006-04-29 |
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