NEW DELHI: Angry over Railways’ decision to withdraw the stoppage of a few trains in Bihar’s Khusrpur station, protestors on Monday torched three trains in Khusrpur and Fathua and ransacked the Khusrpur station uprooting rail lines under Danapur division. In the first incident protestors targeted the Shramjeevi Express in Khusrpur and torched two bogies of the train. Four bogies of the Danapur-Rajgir were also torched. Deputy Superintendent of Government Railway Police (Patna East) Rajendra Singh said hundreds of people from nearby villages torched the train and stormed the Khusrupur railway station this morning, ransacked the station and burnt it down. In a similar incident, angry commuters in Fathua, near Patna railway station, came on the tracks in the morning and forced the Danapur-Jainagar Intercity Express to a stop, they then asked all passengers to disembark before setting some coaches on fire. Barring a few minor injuries to the railway staff, no causalities or injuries have been reported from any of the incidents. Police and additional forces have been rushed to control the situation.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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