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| Maoists besiege Jandaha, make abortive bid to loot bank |
| 2006-04-29 |
| 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 |
| #5 Where's my cut? |
| Posted by: Crap Game 2006-04-29 17:49 |
| #4 So the Kelly's Heros DVD finally reached the outbacks of the world? |
| Posted by: Omereth Hupetch4832 2006-04-29 12:28 |
| #3 Still, Bihar state has a population of 82 million. Better governance is expected for a state of this size. |
| Posted by: john 2006-04-29 10:58 |
| #2 The capital of the most lawless state in the country, though. |
| Posted by: sludge 2006-04-29 09:06 |
| #1 Interesting.. 200 guerillas operating just 60 km from an Indian state capital |
| Posted by: john 2006-04-29 08:51 |