Rourkela: Maoists today damaged railway tracks by setting off landmines in Orissa's Sundargarh district bordering Jharkhand, where the ultras have called a 24-hour bandh.
The landmines damaged the tracks at two places in the Saranda forest areas bordering Jharkhand, about 80 km from here, GRP sources said.
The goods train service which transports iron ore to the Rourkela Steel Plant has been suspended.
The tracks were being repaired after the Government Railway Police; RPF and Railway Engineering staffs went to the spot.
The landmines damaged the tracks at two places in the Saranda forest areas bordering Jharkhand, about 80 km from here, GRP sources said.
The goods train service which transports iron ore to the Rourkela Steel Plant has been suspended.
The tracks were being repaired after the Government Railway Police; RPF and Railway Engineering staffs went to the spot.
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