There has been a major Naxal incident in the Naxal-affected Jamui district of Bihar. There, more than two dozen Maoist Maoists occupied Chaura station on the Patna-Howrah rail route and stopped the operation of trains for hours.

The special thing about the incident is that there was a police alert after intelligence inputs of Naxalite attack in East Bihar including Bhagalpur. Despite this, the incident happened.

According to the information received, the Naxalites are celebrating Martyrs` Week in the memory of their slain comrades from July 29 to August 3.

During this, the Naxalites, who reached the station on Saturday morning, took possession of the railway personnel on the strength of arms. After this, trains were stopped from running through the station.

Due to this, trains were stopped at other stations on either side of the station. Before the Naxal attack, the last train via this route was South Bihar Express at 3:20 am. Since then this road was blocked for hours.

After getting information about the incident, contingents of police and paramilitary forces reached the spot. A contingent of Railway Protection Force also arrived on an engine from the nearby Jhajha station. The Naxalites fled when the police arrived. After this the train operations were back to normal.

Regarding the incident, the station master told SP Pramod Mandal that the Maoists had stopped train operations. He talked about giving information to the control room and the police and also threatened to explode the station.

It is to be known that these days the activism of Naxalites has increased in East Bihar. After uniting two factions of Naxalites in UP-Bihar Northeast Jharkhand Special Area Committee Deputy Commander Arjun Koda and Balikshar Koda, intelligence information was received about the conspiracy to blow up Bhagalpur Rail Station, Bariyarpur Railway Station and Jamui Police Station.

After this, the police were alerted about soft targets like railway stations etc. in eastern Bihar. Despite this, the Naxalites were successful in capturing Jamui`s Chaura station on Saturday.

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