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JAMSHEDPUR: Three powerful pipe bombskept on a railway track to blow up a passenger train were recovered at Burudih, about 12km from the Tatanagar railway station, on Sunday morning by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) who suspect that the explosives were planted by CPI (Maoists).

The bombs were recovered from the Tatanagar-Bhalda section under Chakradharpur railway division of the South Eastern Railway zone. "Following today's (Sunday's) incident, we have revived our on-track security measures and are conducting intelligence raids," said divisional RPF commandant A K Chaurasiya. "All the major railway stations in the division have been alerted."

An electric multiple unit (EMU) train from Tatanagar to Badampahar, the only passenger train that plies on this route, passed a little while before the bombs were detected. Apart from the lone passenger train, a goods train runs on this section, said railway officials.

"As soon as the three bombs and gelatin sticks were recovered, we defused them immediately," said Tatanagar railway station manager Ravi Chaudhary.

On the intervening night of May 14 and May 15, passengers on board the Bilaspur-bound passenger train had a brush with terror when suspected rebels tied a can bomb to the engine of the train in Posaita in the Chakradharpur division.