Title - Maoists hang explosives on train engine in Jharkhand

KOLKATA: Passengers on the 58113 Tatanagar-Bilaspur Passenger train had a narrow escape on Monday night after suspected Maoists boarded the compartments, pasted leaflets and warned them against defying a CPI(Maoist)-sponsored bandh on Wednesday. Before disappearing into the darkness, the rebels hung a bag of explosives to the buffers of the locomotive of the train and told the train staff that it was 'just a warning' of what is to come if an attempt is made to defy the bandh. There was no attempt to hijack the train though.The incident occurred at Jharkhand's Posoita station in the Tatanagar-Rourkela section of South Eastern Railway (SER), nearly 362 km from Howrah, around 9.50 pm on Monday. It sent SER officials in Kolkata into frenzy and special arrangements were made for movement of trains along that route on Wednesday. All Mumbai-bound and several other trains from Howrah pass through that route. In November, 2009, two passengers of the Tatanagar-Bilaspur Passenger train were killed and nearly 50 others injured when Maoists blew up the tracks between the Posoita and Manoharpur stations.