Information About Incident 48392-93844-236276 in East Midnapore India

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A group of Maoists raided the panchayat office at Dhanghori village, located on the road connecting Lodhasuli and Kesiapatha, and planted a landmine to blow up the building.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Dhanghori Lodhasuli, Dhanghori Lodhasuli
• Matched District: East Midnapore
• Actgroup: attack, attack
• Actor: A group of Maoists, a landmine
• Subject: the panchayat office, the building

Context

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The Hindu reports that suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres triggered a landmine explosion at a panchayat (village level local self-Government institution) office in the Jhargram region of West Midnapore District late on February 23. A group of Maoists raided the panchayat office at Dhanghori village, located on the road connecting Lodhasuli and Kesiapatha, and planted a landmine to blow up the building. Earlier, the same building was torched by the Maoists about two months ago, destroying furniture and documents, Superintendent of Police Praveen Tripathi, said.

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