Railway link to Nepal faces Maoist threat
The Statesman/ ANN, Kolkata
The two-month-old rail link to Nepal from Kolkata Port has come under Maoist threat again and Indian Railway officials posted at Raxaul in Bihar are no less threatened. Maoist rebels have threatened to blow up the terminal station in Raxaul, Bihar, located close to the Indo-Nepal border. The Maoist issued a similar threat in the last week of August. The fresh threat to blow up the Raxaul terminal station came close on the heels of a threat issued by a Nepali labour union, the All Nepal Federation of Trade Unions, having links with the rebels, asking 35 firms including Indian joint venture companies in Nepal to shut down. Despite the threat by the Maoist rebels, the movement of freight trains between the two countries has continued. In July, three rakes moved into Nepal from the port and the figure jumped to five rakes in August and two rakes so far in September.
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