Maoists blast mobile phone tower, community centre in Bihar

Gaya/Aurangabad, June 23 (PTI) Maoists blasted a tower of
a private telephone service provider and a community centre in
India's eastern state Bihar during their 48-hour bandh in five
states to protest the police action at Lalgarh.

Scores of CPI(Maoist) ultras swooped on Jhikatia village
in Aurangabad district just past midnight and set off
dynamites to blow up the community centre building, police
said Tuesday.

However, no one was injured as nobody was present at the
building when the Maoists triggered the blast.

Maoists blew up the tower of a private telephone company
at Kharasi village in extremist-affected Gaya district, also
around midnight. The tower was badly damaged, police said.

The place is situated close to Jharkhand border.
Life in Bihar remained largely unaffected by the Maoist
bandh barring Barachatti sub-division of Gaya district, where
shops and business establishments were closed and traffic
including on the 100 km stretch of Grand Trunk road (NH-2)
was very thin. PTI