Three policemen killed in Jharkhand bus accident

October 4th, 2009 RANCHI - Two policemen were wounded in a two-hour gun battle with Maoist rebels in Jharkhand, police said Sunday. The gun battle took place in jungles of Bundu block, 45 km from here, when a search team was ambushed by the rebels, according to police officials here.

September 8th, 2009 RANCHI - Three Maoist rebels, including a senior commander, were arrested after a gun battle lasting over two and a half hours on the outskirts of Ranchi Tuesday, police said. According to police, three members of the Jharkhand Prastuti Committee (JPC), including commander Raj Kumar Ganju, were arrested from Churugarha village, around 55 km from Ranchi.

September 3rd, 2009 RANCHI - Six people were killed and 20 injured when the bus they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell into a ditch in Gumla district of Jharkhand Thursday afternoon, police said. According to police, the bus had nearly 40 passengers when it went off the road while passing over a culvert at Baghima village, around 145 km here.

August 9th, 2009 DUMKA - At least five policemen, including one Sub-Inspector, were suspended by the Jharkhand police on Sunday for beating a mentally challenged person accused of attacking his mother with a knife. The incident occurred at a government hospital in Jharkhand's Dumka district on Saturday.

June 16th, 2009 RANCHI - Four policemen were killed in a nearly two-hour-long gun battle with Maoist rebels in Jharkhand's Palamau district Tuesday afternoon, police said. Acting on a tip-off, a police team raided a Maoist hideout near Baherakhad village in Palamau, 180 km from the state capital.

June 13th, 2009 RANCHI - Keeping up their attacks on security forces in Jharkhand, in which 24 policemen have been killed since Wednesday, Maoists Saturday ambushed a patrol in the state's Khuti district, injuring three policemen in a landmine blast. "Three policemen have been injured in a landmine blast near Rania block of Khuti district," Ranchi range's Deputy Inspector General of Police Raj Kumar Mallik told IANS.

June 12th, 2009 RANCHI - Eleven policemen were killed in separate Maoist attacks in Bokaro district of Jharkhand Friday, police said. According to police, Maoists attacked a State Bank of India (SBI) branch near Fusro market of Bokaro town Friday afternoon, killing two personnel of the state police.

June 12th, 2009 BOKARO - Carrying out a second major strike in last three days, Maoists killed at least nine policemen and injured 10 others in an attack on a Public Sector Unit bank and a subsequent landmine blast in Jharkhand's Bokaro city on Friday. The Maoists, who are observing a Bandh in six States including Jharkhand, attempted to loot the State Bank of India (SBI) branch at Phusro after money was brought there from the Bermo branch of the bank, said Bokaro's Superintendent of Police, L.

February 27th, 2009 RANCHI - At least 15 people were killed and 30 more were injured when a bus fell into a valley in Latehar district of Jharkhand Thursday, police said. 'A bus was going to Daltanganj from Mahutand of Latehar district.

February 10th, 2009 PATNA - Two days after 10 policemen were killed in an ambush by suspected Maoists in a remote Bihar village, a Bihar policemen's union Wednesday has called for a 'concrete action plan' to fight the rebels. 'The police headquarters has failed to chalk out a concrete action plan till date despite the fact that dozens of policemen are being killed every year,' Bihar Policemen's Association general secretary Jitendra Narayan Singh said here.

February 8th, 2009 PATNA - Ten policemen, including a police station chief, were killed Monday when suspected Maoist guerrillas attacked them in Bihar's Nawada district, the police said. Armed Maoist guerillas attacked a police team visiting Mahulitand village in Nawada district, some 175 km from here, Additional Director General (police headquarters) Neelmani, said.

February 5th, 2009 RANCHI - Five police personnel were injured in a landmine blast by the Maoist rebels in Jharkhand Friday, a police officer said. When the five cops were returning to the Bundu police station, rebels belonging to the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) detonated a landmine near a bridge situated under the Bundu block, around 70 km from here.

February 2nd, 2009 RANCHI - At least four people were killed and two injured when a speeding truck ran over them in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand Tuesday, a police officer said. The accident took place when the six people were trying to cross the road at Grand Trank (GT) road situated near Govindpur block of Dhanbad district, around 240 km from here.

February 1st, 2009 RANCHI - Maoist rebels blew up a tower for mobile telephony in Chatra district of Jharkhand, a police officer said Monday. More than 50 rebels belonging to Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) blew up the transmission tower of Airtel situated in Garo village of Chatra district, around 190 km from here, Sunday midnight.

January 27th, 2009 RANCHI - When different Maoist groups in Jharkhand boycotted the Republic Day celebrations and hoisted black flags, a smaller Maoist group saluted the tricolour and paid tribute to policemen killed in the Mumbai terror attack. Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), a Maoist group active in five districts of Jharkhand has issued photographs and a statement saying that they paid tributes to the policemen killed in the Mumbai terror attack and hoisted the tricolour and also sang the national anthem.