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Terrorist Attacks on Railways in India



Date

Incident

Killed

Injured

2009

 

March 21, 2009

A group of armed CPI-Maoist cadres blew up the railway tracks between the Buraru and Pairayya stations of Gaya District. The blast uprooted both the up and down tracks and damaged the overhead traction wires.

0
0

March 1, 2009

The CPI-Maoist cadres blew up 150 feet of railway tracks at Bhalui halt between Kiul and Jhajha in the Jamui District on the Howrah-Delhi mainline.

0
0

February 28, 2009

The CPI-Maoist cadres blew up two railway stations on the Howrah-Mumbai and Rourkela-Barasuan section in the Sundergarh District. While one group of around 70 Maoists, including some women, blew up the Bhalulata railway station, another group of Maoists attacked the railway station at Chandiposh on Rourkela-Barasuan section. Maoists also abducted two railway officials from Chandiposh.

0
0

February 28, 2009

About 24 armed CPI-Maoist cadres set ablaze a railway station in the Munger District after asking people to move out.

0
0

February 25, 2009

The CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead two Railway Protection Force (RPF) constables and injured two others while snatching their weapons at Barabhum railway station in the Purulia District about 10 kilometres from the Jharkhand border. The deceased constables were identified as N.B.N. Ansari and S.R. Majhi. The incident occurred when the 3302 Subarnarekha Express (Tatanagar to Dhanbad) entered Barabhum station at around 2.20 pm (IST). The constables were returning in the brake-van at the rear of the train after escorting a cash consignment to Tatanagar. The assailants, who apparently knew the constables were in it, went up to the coach and opened fire at them.

2
2

January 27, 2009

An IED of 3.5 kilograms was recovered from a railway track at 459/2 km point between Bhojo and Longpatia railway stations.

0
0

January 24, 2009

Army personnel recovered two high intensity bombs near Gohpur railway station in the Sonitpur District. "The bombs were probably to be ferried to Guwahati by train," said an unnamed Police Official at Gohpur Police Station.

0
0

January 4, 2009

Three bogies of a goods train coming from Badarpur to Lumding were derailed and around 40 metres of track damaged, when the suspected Black Widow (BW) militants triggered a bomb blast on the railway track between Harangajao and Mailongdisa railway stations in the North Cachar Hills District. Train services in the Hill section were affected due to the blast

0
0
2008  

December 24, 2008

A low-intensity bomb exploded on the rail tracks near Bokajan in the Karbi Anglong District of Assam

0
0

December 1, 2008

A bomb blast suspected to have been triggered by the KLNLF in a passenger train at Diphu railway station in the Karbi Anglong District of Assam

3
30

May 12, 2008

Black Widow militants attacked railway workers engaged in a construction site at Migrendisa under Haflong Police station in the North Cachar Hills District of Assam

2
1

April 26, 2008

A railway labourer is killed and an engineer is abducted by a group of 15 NLFT militants at Atharomura railway tunnel site under Mungiakami Police station in the West Tripura District

1
0

March 24, 2008

Black Widow militants attacked the Harangajao railway station in the North Cachar Hills District of Assam

3
2

March 12, 2008

A bomb blast occurred at the Udalguri railway station in the Udalguri District of Assam

0
0

January 12, 2008

Suspected ULFA militants lobbed grenades on railway workers at Rongsal in the Dibrugarh District of Assam

0
4

December 18, 2007

A group of armed militants of the Black Widow attacked the camp at Phiding Railway Station in the North Cachar Hill District in Assam

2
5

December 13, 2007

A bomb blast carried out by suspected ANLA militants in a Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express train in Golaghat District in Assam

5
4

July 19, 2007

A bomb planted by unidentified militants exploded near Udalguri railway station in the Udalguri District of Assam

0
1

March 15, 2007

The ULFA explodes a bomb on a power transformer near Borigaon Chaiding railway crossing causing a five-feet crater on the ground in the Jorhat District of Assam.

0
0

February 18, 2007

Two improvised explosive device (IED) blasts in two coaches of Samjhauta Express, the Delhi-Attari special train for Lahore, at Deewana near Panipat in Haryana

67
50

February 9, 2007

IED explosion at the Kamakhya railway station in Guwahati, Assam

0
0

January 22, 2007

Blast at railway track between the Diphu and Nailalong Railway stations at Karbi Anglong in Assam

0
0

January 21, 2007

Blast at a railway station in Bongaigaon, Assam

0
5

January 6, 2007

Explosion at railway bridge near Bithilangso village in Karbi Anglong

0
0

December 5, 2006

A blast at the broad gauge railway track, between Daldali and Diphu railway stations, Karbi Anglong

0
0

November 20, 2006

A bomb blast inside a compartment of the Haldibari-Siliguri Passenger train at Belacoba station in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district.

10
50

July 11, 2006

Seven bomb blasts at seven locations in local trains across Mumbai city.

228
890

March 7, 2006

A blast at the Cantonment Railway Station in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

6
0

February 19, 2006

Bomb blast at Platform No.2 of the Kalpur Railway Station in Ahmedabad, Gujarat

0
25
August 10 , 2005

Explosion at railway track near Tihu railway station in Nalbari, Assam

0
0

August 10, 2005

Blast at railway track between Bunda and Sapadenga near Guwahati, Assam

0
0

July 28, 2005

Bomb blasts in the general compartment of Shramjeevi Express near Hariharpur railway crossing at Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh

9
50

May 20, 2005

IED explosions at railway tracks near Gossaigaon in the Kokrajhar district of Assam

0
2

January 2, 2004

Two suicide squad terrorists attack ed the Jammu Railway Station

6
15

June 19, 2004

Blast at the Ultapur railway station in the Tinsukia district of Assam

0
1

October 26, 2003

Blast at railway tracks at Samba in Jammu and Kashmir

0
0

March 13, 2003

Bomb blast at the Mulund Railway Station in Mumbai

11
80

December 6, 2002

Bomb blast at the Mumbai Central railway station

0
25

December 6, 2002

Blast the Mumbai Central railway station

0
25

August 7, 2001

Bomb blast at the Jammu Railway Station

12
29

February 10, 2000

Bomb blasts at Shalimar Express in Satwal, Jammu & Kashmir

5
0

June 22, 1999

Blast at the New Jaipaiguri railway station in West Bengal

9
85

April 16, 1999

Blast at the Holambi Kalan railway station in New Delhi

2
0

July 8, 1997

Explosion at the Lehra Khana railway station in Bhatinda, Punjab

33
0

December 6, 1997

IED Blasts in three trains in Chennai Pandyan Express (Tiruchi), Cheran Express (Erode) and Allepy Express (Thrissur)

10
150

December 30, 1996

Blasts on the Brahmaputra Mail between the Kokrajhar and Fakirgram stations in Assam

33
0

Source: Compiled from English language media sources.

 

 

 

 

 
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