Bihar: Maoists abduct three railway employees

Armed Maoists on Monday night ransacked Islampur railway station in Bihar's Gaya district and abducted the station master and two other railway employees as their 48-hour bandh began in five states, railway officials said.

Over two hundred extremists ransacked the Islampur station, about 30 km from Gaya in Gaya-Mughalsarai route of the East Central Railway, and took away the station master and two other railway employees with them, they said.

The Maoists have called a 48-hour bandh in Bihar, Orissa, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal. Security personnel have launched raids to rescue the abducted railway employees, the officials said.

Meanwhile, several trains including the Howrah-New Delhi Rajdhani and the Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani were halted at the Gaya station following the attack, they said.