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| 2010-05-19 14:26:04 |
NEW DELHI, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Barely two days after India's extreme left-wing Naxalite rebels massacred over 40 people in central India, the Naxalites blew up a railway track, triggering a landmine blast, in eastern state of West Bengal early Wednesday morning, damaging a goods train's engine and injuring the driver and his assistant, a senior police official said.
"The engine of the goods train was damaged and the driver and his assistant were injured in the landmine blast set off by Naxalites on rail tracks between Jhargram and Khatkura stations in West Bengal at 02:00 a.m. local time. Both the injured have been admitted to a local hospital," the official said.
Railway traffic has been severely disrupted due to the blast as overhead electric wire were snapped, a senior Indian Railways official said, adding that several long distance trains were diverted.
"The locomotive of the goods train has been damaged. The blast occurred at 02:00 a.m. local time on Wednesday morning. The security clearance was received by the security agency on Wednesday morning and the restoration work started soon afterwards, " said Soumitra Majumdar of South Eastern Railways.
"We will soon be restoring the train services through one line. The other one will work in another couple of hours. Ahmedabad Express has been diverted through Midnapore while Purushottam Express has also been diverted through that route," he added.
Meanwhile, senior railway officials and police officials have reached the spot to inspect the blast site and a probe has been ordered into the incident, the police official said.
This attack comes after Monday's attack on a bus in Dantewada in Chhattisgarh in which over 40 people including women, children and security men were killed.
Naxalites have called for a five-day bandh in the states of Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Orissa and Chhattisgarh starting Tuesday to protest against Operation Green Hunt launched by the Indian government to neutralize their threat.
