Maoists blow up mobile network, rail track in Bihar

Maoist rebels on Monday blew up three mobile phone towers, destroyed railway tracks and forced shops to close during a daylong strike in Bihar. The rebels also torched two lorries and kept cars and buses off the road in rural parts of the state to protest the arrest of a top-ranking Maoist commander Subodhji, alias Anand who is a special area committee member of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) of the Bihar-Jharkhand area.