Gaya: Hours ahead of Bharatiya Janata Party Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's visit to Gaya in Bihar, Maoists blew up two mobile tower in the district. Modi is scheduled to address a rally in Gaya on Thursday.
CNN-IBN has also learned that a bomb was found on a railway track near Rafiganj station in Aurangabad on Thursday morning. The police have defused the bomb and train services have resumed.
About one hundred Maoists gathered in the areas and blew up two mobile towers of a private company by exploding powerful bombs at Manjhauli and Dumaria Bazar villages late on Wednesday night, Superintendent of Police Nishant Tewari said.
The ultras have called a bandh in the Maoist-hit districts of south central part of the state in protest against the killing of ten of their cadre in Chhatra recently.
Modi is scheduled to address two election rallies at Maoist-hit Sasaram and Gaya on Thursday afternoon. "We have anticipated all types of threats from the Maoists and terrorists. Security arrangements are being made accordingly," Director General of Police (DGP) Abhayanand had said on Wednesday.
(With additional information from PTI)
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