Bomb blasts triggered by the CPI-Maoist- 2010

March 12: CRPF patrol party escaped a landmine explosion on a road near Rajhania in Jamui District of Bihar. Sukar Yadav, a passer-by, was critically injured in the blast.

February 21: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a state-run school building at Maheshwari village in Jamui District of Bihar.

February 20: A cadre of the CPI-Maoist was killed and another injured when a bomb, they were handling, exploded at Goriadih village in Palamau District of Jharkhand. The deceased was identified as Satyendra Yadav, brother of CPI-Maoist ‘sub-zonal commander’ Anirudih Yadav, who had been killed in Palamau in 2009. The injured Maoist was identified as Upendra Yadav. Nine other suspected Maoists, who were accompanying the injured Maoist to a hospital, were arrested by the Police.

February 17: At least 12 villagers, including three women and one child, were killed when nearly 150 heavily-armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist attacked Phulwariya village in Jamui District of Bihar. Four of a family was charred to death while others were shot dead. Those killed were Kora tribals and the attack was in retaliation of the alleged killing of eight Maoists by the Koras on January 31 at the instigation of one Lakhan Kora, suspected by the Maoists of being a Police informer. The Maoists triggered explosions and also set 30 houses ablaze. The whereabouts of Lakhan are not known. While the Police say he survived the attack, this could not be confirmed from local sources.

February 15: At least 24 Security Force (SF) personnel, mostly belonging to the Eastern Frontier Rifles, were killed and several others injured when a large group of CPI-Maoist cadres attacked a SF camp at Silda in West Midnapore of West Bengal. The Maoists triggered several blasts before opening fire on the SF personnel. Before leaving, the Maoists looted firearms and set the camp ablaze.

February 14: The CPI-Maoist cadres set the battery house and the rest shed of a mobile telephone tower ablaze at Padarguda near Ramgiri in Boipariguda block (administrative division) of Koraput District of Orissa.

February 10: Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a portion of railway tracks between Bisra and Bhalulata railway stations in Orissa at around 2 am causing derailment of a goods train and disrupting train services on the Howrah-Mumbai route. Eight wagons of a goods train were derailed in the explosion.

February 9: The CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a stretch of railway track under Nimiaghat Police station in Giridih District of Jharkhand during their 72-hour shutdown, affecting train services.

A contingent of Police Force along with 300 Special Police Officers (SPOs) was trapped in a landmine and then ambushed by CPI-Maoist cadres at a village in Dantewada District in Chhattisgarh where they were going to find the whereabouts of 12 missing tribals in pursuance of the Supreme Court's February 8 order.

The CPI-Maoist cadres blew up the Howrah-Delhi railway track at Narganjo railway station in Jamui in Bihar. The Maoists blew up a track in the same area just two days ago.

February 8: The CPI-Maoist cadres blew up railway tracks between Bhalulata and Jareikela, about 30 kilometers away from Rourkela in Orissa, resulting in the derailment of two wagons of a goods train and disruption of train services on the Howrah-Mumbai route.

February 7: The CPI-Maoist blew up railway tracks to enforce their 72-hour bandh (general shut down) near Rajla station on Jhaja-Jasidih section of East Central Railway in Jamui District in Bihar. The blast damaged railway tracks up to a stretch of about four metres on the down line and two metres on the up line. The train movement was consequently paralyzed completely for about 10-12 hours.

February 6: The Maoists targeted a pilot engine, which had security men on board, and blew up tracks between Rajla and Narganjo railway halts in Bihar, affecting the movement of several long-distance and local trains.

January 20: The Maoists exploded a mobile communication tower and its control room by attaching landmines to it at Kaliatola village under Baipariguda Police Station limits in Koraput District of Orissa in the morning.

January 18: The Maoists blew up a railway track near Nadaul railway station in the Jehanabad District of Bihar. Nadaul is situated on Patna-Gaya rail route of East-Central Railway. Maoists first forced railway officials on duty in the cabin on the outer signal of Nadaul railway station to leave the place. They then blew up the railway track. The blast was a low-intensity one that only damaged three concrete railway sleepers. The incident disrupted rail traffic on the route.

January 15: The Maoists triggered a landmine blasts near Ambakona adjacent to the Gurdari mine in the bauxite-rich Netarhat plateau of Jharkhand halting the work in almost all bauxite mines located at Gurdari, Kakdang, Polpol, Navatoli, Dhibikutum, Hadalakda, Dumsrpat, Sakhuapani and Ambakona.

January 6: The Maoists blew up railway tracks near Mohammadpur station in Palamu District of Jharkhand disrupting train services between Garhwa Road and Sone Nagar stations. A goods train was also derailed in the incident.

January 5: The Maoists blew up railway tracks near Mohammadpur station in Palamu District of Jharkhand disrupting train services between Garhwa Road and Sone Nagar stations. A goods train was also derailed in the incident. The CPI-Maoist had called for a 24-hour bandh (general shut down) in Palamau commissionary to protest against the alleged custody death of Rajendra Yadav, a resident of Tiladi village in Chattarpur. The bandh affected life in three districts— Latehar, Garhwa and Palamau.

January 3-4: The Maoists blew up another Government school building in Rehlatur gram panchayat in Sundargarh District of Orissa, Police said on January 4. About 40 Maoists entered the building of the Middle English School in under K Balang town on January 3 and looted 50 quintals of rice stored there before setting off an explosion. Maoists had blasted four school buildings and a hospital besides two buildings in the gram panchayat last month. About 3,000 to 4,000 villagers have left their homes in panic and were sheltering in camps in K Balang.

January 2: Cadres of the CPI-Maoist blew up a gram panchayat (village level self-Government institution) office building and a go down in Malkangiri District of Orissa during a bandh (general shut down) called by the outfit against alleged Police excesses. Around 50 armed Maoists attacked thegram panchayat office at Panasput in Chitrakonda area of Malkangiri and drove away those inside before triggering an explosion, Police said. The Maoists also stormed a go down located near the office and blasted it with explosives before disappearing into a nearby forest, they said. Nobody was harmed or injured, they added. Meanwhile, the bandh called by Maoists in Orissa and four other States against alleged Police excesses and the proposed anti-naxal operations had little impact barring stray incidents of tree felling in Malkangiri and disruption of traffic in Rayagada District. Many Government buses stopped plying in Malkangiri and Rayagada Districts, where trees were used to block roads.