During their 24-hour long bandh on Thursday, the CPI (Maoist) rebels blew up two mobile phone towers near Tisia village of Kisko block in lohardaga. The first tower was providing services for Aircel and BSNl whereas the second one belonged to Reliance Communications. Both the towers were working well in the areas.
On getting the information, lohardaga SP Manoj Ratan Chothe reached the incident site with police force and diffused some other bombs those were not blasted with the help of bomb diffusing squads.
Meanwhile, due to the bandh scare life in the rural areas of the state remained disturbed as shops and other business establishments remained closed throughout the day. Even banks and educational institutions in the rural areas witnessed low attendance, some of them remained closed, informed sources.
long distance transport was also affected in the state as inter-state buses remained off the road and trucks remained stranded on the roads. Even at Ranchi the capital city there was less movement of heavy transport vehicles to outstations.