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Indian Maoists Blow Up Railway Tracks, Torch Train
Tuesday, May 7, 2002
(17:40 PT)
The Daily Jang

RANCHI, India
Maoist rebels set fire to a train engine and blew up sections of railway track in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand on Tuesday on the second day of a three-day statewide strike, police said.

Armed cadres of the outlawed Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) and the Peoples War Group (PWG) used explosives to blow up tracks in three districts of the state, Jharkhand police chief R.R. Prasad said.

The strike, or "economic blockade," was called by the two groups to protest alleged police atrocities and a new federal anti-terrorism law passed by parliament in March. The strike was relatively peaceful on Monday, but was marked by incidents of violence on Tuesday, he said.
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