PWG ultras strike again in Bihar, AP

PWG ultras strike again in Bihar, AP
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

DALTONGUNJ, DECEMBER 18: Barely hours after blasting railway tracks near Taregana on Wednesday, the ultras of the banned Peoples War Group (PWG) blew up Kajrat-Nawadih railway station under Mughalsarai division of Eastern Railway in Bihar's Palamu district on Friday night.

It also blew 100 metre up line railway track near it, police said here. None was reported to have been wounded or killed in the explosion, the police said.

Heavily armed ultra Leftists surrounded the railway station, herded all the railway employees out of the building and blew up the building using dynamite. The extremists also snapped the telephone wires before starting the operation.

The roof of the building, its rear wall and furniture were blown up in the blast, the police said.

The incident occured barely hours before the administration sounded a high alert across the state following the blasting of railway tracks near Taregana on Wednesday. The PWG ultras are on the rampage in Bihar since the killing of its three top leadersin Andhra Pradesh recently. Additional Inspector General of Police (Eastern Railway) Anil Pandey said the extremists had left some pamphlets at the station owning responsibility for the explosion.

The pamphlets said the explosion was in protest against the killing of four of their comrades in Andhra Pradesh and an area commander of the banned outfit in Bihar in a fake encounters with the police. Railway sources said traffic was disrupted for over six hours because of the incident. The traffic on the down line was resorted after the arrival of a contigent of Railway Protection Force and district armed police, the sources said.

Meanwhile, PWG naxals blasted the house of the ruling Telugu Desam Party MP, G Ganga Reddy at Kespally village in Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh late Friday night.

Naxals, suspected to be from the Sirnapalli Dalam blasted the abandoned tiled house of Nizamabad MP with detonators.

Deputy commander surrenders
HYDERABAD: A deputy commander of the PWG on Saturdaysurrendered at Chittoor before the district superintendent of police, T A Tripati.

K Venkatramana alias Suryam (27), carrying a reward of Rs 25,000 on his head, was involved in several offences including murders and burning of buses, police said here. Suryam was also member of radical students union of Rayachoti in Karnataka.