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Goods train derailed after Naxals uproot tracks in Bastar

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Press Trust of India Raipur
Last Updated : Feb 02 2013 | 5:45 PM IST

"A police team has been dispatched to Badekaklur area in Bastar district after report of the ultras uprooting the railway track received tonight," Special Director General (Anti-Naxal Operations) Ramnivas said.

According to preliminary information, three coaches and two locomotives jumped off the track in the area which is a Naxal stronghold.

Freight trains for Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh usually pass through this route and Naxals often target them, he said.

  

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First Published: Oct 10 2012 | 4:08 AM IST

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