Naxals blew up a railway track near Giridih in Jharkhand late on Wednesday night. As a precautionary measure, the movement of trains on the Howrah-Gaya-Delhi rail line was stopped as soon as the incident was reported. Along with this, the routes of some trains have also been changed. However, there was no significant damage to the railway track. The Naxalites have also left a pamphlet after the tracks were blown up with a bomb. The good news is that there was no major accident.
Naxalites have targeted the Gaya-Dhanbad-Howrah railway section from New Delhi with an explosion on the track between Chichaki and Choudhary dam in Giridih district of Jharkhand. After this, the route of many trains including Rajdhani has been diverted.
A letter has also been found after blowing up the railway tracks. In which it is written that from January 21 to January 26, make the resistance successful. According to Rajesh Kumar, CPRO of East-Central Railway, Gaurav Raj and Rohit Kumar Singh of railway patrol informed the station master of Chichaki that the blast took place between Karamabad-Chichaki station in Dhanbad division at 12.34 pm on Wednesday-Thursday. As a precaution, the movement of trains has been stopped on the line of Gomo-Gaya rail section of Howrah-Delhi rail route.
Jharkhand | Suspected Naxals blow up a portion of railway tracks on the Howrah-New Delhi line between Chichaki and Chaudharybandh railway stations in Giridih; details awaited pic.twitter.com/9cx7GE14NK
— ANI (@ANI) January 27, 2022
On getting information about the incident, railways and local police have reached the spot and RPF has confirmed the incident.
These trains were stopped
13329 Dhanbad – Patna Express at 12.35 hrs at Choudharybandh
18624 Hatia-Islampur Express at Parasnath at 12.37 hrs
18609 Ranchi – Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express at Parasnath at 12.55 hrs
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Change route of these trains
Train No. 12307 HOWRAH – JODHPUR EXPRESS Journey start date 26.01. 2022 Pradhankhanta-Gaya-DDU will be replaced by Jhajha-Patna-DDU.
12321 Howrah-Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Express will run via Jhajha-Patna-DDU instead of Pradhankhanta-Gaya-DDU.
12312 Kalka-Howrah Express will run from Gaya-Patna-Jhajha instead of DDU-Gaya-Pradhankhanta.
12322 Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus-Howrah Express will run via Gaya-Patna-Jhajha instead of DDU-Gaya-Pradhankhanta.
22824 New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express, 12314 New Delhi-Sealdah Rajdhani Express and 12302 New Delhi-Howrah Rajdhani Express will be diverted via DDU-Patna-Jhajha instead of DDU-Gaya-Pradhankhanta.
12816 Anand Vihar-Puri Express will be diverted via Hazaribagh Town-Barkakana instead of Koderma-Nesuchbo Gomo.
12826 Anand Vihar-Ranchi Jharkhand Sampark Kranti Express will be diverted from Koderma-Rajabera to Koderma-Hazaribagh Town-Barkakana.
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