Rebels attack Indian trains

Published March 14, 2006

NEW DELHI, March 13: Communist rebels attacked two trains in a remote part of eastern India on Monday, and authorities could not contact a passenger train carrying more than 200 passengers, a railway official said. Details were scant, but the railway official in the eastern state of Jharkhand said the driver of a cargo train passing through the Latehar district of the state reported that his train and another passenger train had come under attack from the Maoist rebels.—AP

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