Train services affected following Maoist threat

Soon after they disappered into the nearby jungle.

Following the threat,running of goods train,mainly used in this track to transport iron ore from the mining areas to Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) and other sponge iron plants in Sundargarh district were affected.

However,no damage to the track or other railway properties were reported,railway police sources said.

Train services in the section has been restored this morning including plying of one passenger train and other goods train in the section,the sources added.

Maoists kill one,blow up school buildings

Malkangiri: In a series of attacks,Maoists gunned down one person and blew up two government school buildings in Orissa’s Malkangiri district early on Sunday,police said.

The body of a person with gun shot mark was found along a road at Gamphakonda village,about 40km from here,Malkangiri Superintendent of Police Anirudh Singh said.

The body of the man,believed to have been killed on the suspicion of being a police informer,was covered with a Maoist banner. A large number of posters with rebel slogans were also found near the site,he said.

Barely ten km away,heavily armed ultras struck at Tentuliguda village and blew up a primary school building by triggering a landmine explosion,Singh said. There was no casuaty in the attack.

In another strike,a large number of rebels stormed a school building at Bejangwada and set off an explosion to blow it up,he said. There was no casualty as students of the residential sevasram school for tribals were yet to shift to the new building,he said.

Maoists have been blasting school and panchayat buildings in the region as these places are being used for accommodating security forces for anti-Naxal operations,police said.