Information About Incident 62216-125002-316840 in Belgaum India

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According to intelligence inputs received by the South Eastern Railway (SER), the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) is planning to attack a railway escort party that is entrusted with sanitizing the rail tracks close to the West Bengal-Jharkhand border rather than a passenger-carrying train, reports The Times of India, on March 8.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: West Bengal Jharkhand
• Matched District: Belgaum
• Actgroup: attack
• Actor: the Communist Party of India - Maoist ( CPI-M aoist )
• Subject: a railway escort party that is entrusted with sanitizing the rail tracks close to the West Bengal - Jharkhand border rather than a passenger - carrying train

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According to intelligence inputs received by the South Eastern Railway (SER), the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) is planning to attack a railway escort party that is entrusted with sanitizing the rail tracks close to the West Bengal-Jharkhand border rather than a passenger-carrying train, reports The Times of India, on March 8. After the 2010 Jnaneswari Express disaster which killed 148 passengers, the possibility of another strike by the Maoists looms large. Commenting on the matter, a highly-placed source revealed We have information that the Maoists are planning a strike. They won't target a passenger-carrying train as the Jnaneswari strike led to bad publicity. They are planning to attack an escort party instead. Intelligence reports suggest that such a strike has been planned as the Maoists want to use it as a resurgence tool in the eastern part of the country where the rebels have not been able to gain much ground in the recent past.

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