New Delhi: Members of banned CPI (Maoist) are suspected to have blown up a portion of railway tracks in Jharkhand’s Latehar district in the early hours of Saturday, disrupting train services on the Barkakana-Garhwa route, police said.
An explosion ripped off a part of a railway track in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad division derailing a diesel locomotive in the early hours of Saturday. Following this, railway officials said that it was a “bomb blast” which occurred between Garwa Road and Barkana section in the Dhanbad division.
“Unusual incidence of bomb blast by miscreants causing derailment of diesel loco on Dhanbad division,” the Railways said.