Five Bihar cops killed in landmine blast
By IANSFriday, October 22, 2010
PATNA - Five policemen, including an inspector, were killed and one seriously injured Friday when Maoists triggered a landmine blast in Bihar’s Sheohar district, where polling is due Oct 24.
The policemen were returning to the Shyampur Bhitta police station after patrolling when Maoists set off the mine, hidden beneath a culvert, as the police vehicle passed over it, Additional Director General of Police P.K. Thakur told reporters.
The dead included Praveen Kumar Singh, station house officer of Shymapur Bhitta.
Sheohar, about 90 km from Patna, is one of the six districts where polling will be held Sunday, in the second phase of the six-phase elections to the 243-member Bihar assembly.
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