Over half a dozen armed miscreants suspected to be Naxalite struck terror on UP-Bihar border when they opened indiscriminate fire on police patrol party manning Mugalsarai-Buxar passenger, looted their arms and ammunitions before fleeing. While one of the constable was killed in the attack, the other one is still battling for his life.
Senior police officers of Varanasi Zone as well as officials of Government Railway Police (GRP) had visited the spot and made investigation. They formed separate teams to trace out the criminals involved in the sensational crime. An assistance is also sought from sleuths of the Special Task Force (STF) to help the local police in tracing down the criminals.
Reports said that police patrol team of GRP was manning Mugalsarai-Buxar Passenger (train no-63240) on Friday night. When the train left Chausa railway station in Chandauli and headed for Buxar, about to 7 to 8 criminals who all were already boarded in the same train had whipped out weapons and opened fire on the police team in which constable Abhisekh Singh (32), hailing from Narhi hamlet of Balia and constable Nandlal Yadav, were critically injured. Threatening the other passengers with dire consequences, the criminals looted the Insas Rifles of the jawans along with 40 cartridges. later as the train slowed down, the criminals jumped and escaped through the jungles towards Buxar.
As the train reached Buxar, the passengers passed on the message after which both the jawans were rushed to near-by hospital where Abhisekh was pronounced dead upon arrival while Nandlal was referred to Trauma Centre at Medical College in Varanasi. Senior officials who made primarily investigation claimed that the criminals seems to be naxalite as they just looted arms and ammunitions, targeted cops but neither looted any belongings of other passengers or even done any harm to them.
Meanwhile two persons were killed in separate clashed reported from Gorakhpur on Friday night. In the first case reported from Pipraich area of Gorakhpur, Bechu Yadav, a resident of Shahganj locality and his neighbour Furti Yadav, were having a property dispute. On Sunday night, a `panchayat’ was called in the village to resolve the dispute between the two. However, during the panchayat, both the parties had heated exchange of words which later turned violent. Both groups opened fire and also used sharp edged weapons in which over a dozen persons were injured. local residents somehow cooled down both the parties and shifted them to hospital where Pintu Yadav (32), kin of Bechu Yadav was pronounced dead upon arrival while condition of Furti’s son Monu Yadav, who too received bullet injury has been stated to be 'critical'.
In another case reported from Bansgoan in Gorakhpur, Subash Singh (60), a resident of Bhaiupur hamlet was president at his country made liquor shop along with a local villager identified as Arun Singh, on Friday night. The matter took an ugly turn when Arun had some dispute with Subash Singh. He later whipped out country made weapon and opened fire in which Subash Singh was killed. Arun later escaped from the spot. A case has been registered in this regard by the police and efforts were on to nab Arun.