Naxalites blast rest house in a tourist spot in Bihar

The building was badly damaged, the sources said adding that there was no report of any casualty.

Armed CPI (Maoist) Naxalites on Thursday triggered a blast at a rest house at Bhim Bandh, a famous tourist spot in Bihar's Munger district onThursday, but there was no report of any casualty, official sources said.

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An armed squad asked the rest house staff to vacate the building and then triggered a dynamite, the sources said.

The building was badly damaged, the sources said adding that there was no report of any casualty.

Extremists had killed the then Munger Superintendent of Police K Surendra Babu in Bhim Bandh area on January five last year by exploding a bomb in his jeep.