Maoist Rebel Attack Kills Two in India

Maoist rebels planted the IED device underneath a downed tree to block a road in Jharkhand, India.

[Naveen Kumar Singh, Police Superintendent]:
"The explosive device was placed in a tree... the branch of the tree was fastened with explosives so that it would explode if someone tried to disturb it."

Eyewitnesses say security personnel forced the villagers to remove the tree.

The attack comes amidst a 48-hour shutdown called by the Maoists, who are boycotting assembly elections in the state.

The shutdown began midnight on Saturday. The Maoists blew up a building at the Mahubuang railway station and a stretch of railway track in the Bokaro district in the wee hours.

Thousands have been killed in the Maoist insurgency which began in the late 1960s. Indias prime minister says the Maoists are the gravest homegrown threat to India's internal security.

The rebels are expanding their influence in the rural areas of east, central and southern India.

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