Maoists torch vehicles on G.T.Road connecting Delhi and Kolkata

Heavily armed Maoists torched 32 vehicles, including tankers and containers, on the Grand Trunk Road on the first day of their two-day band in Bihar and Jharkhand bandh today. However, nobody was injured in the attack which took place on the route which connects Kolkata to New Delhi in the wee hours and traffic has been restored. The Maoists have called the bandh to protest the killing of their Bihar Jharkhand Chhattisgarh Special Area Committee member Sarita alias Urmila Ganjoo in an encounter with CRPF on May 16.