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Puri, Jan 4: At least seven persons, including a motorcyclist, were injured when dacoits attacked Puri-Khurda Road passenger train in Puri district, railway police said Sunday.
The dacoits entered the train in groups Saturday at Malatipatapur, Sakhigopal and Delanga stations past midnight and attacked the passengers, Deputy Superintendent of GRP, DK Das said.
The miscreants used daggers and stones to hurt the passengers and decamped with their belongings including cash, Das said. Two dacoits alighted the train near Delanga and attacked one Bhaskar Pradhan of Udayapur village, who was riding a motorbike, apparently to flee with the help of the vehicle.
Pradhan sustained injuries as they attacked him with a broken liquor bottle. He was shifted to a hospital in Bhubaneswar in a serious condition, Das said. Six passengers who were injured in the attack in the train got down at Kanasa and lodged a complaint. The injured were identified as PK Sahu and AK Sahu of Ganjam, Rajiv Sethi of Kendrapara and Rajkumar Behera, Maimud Shah and Suresh Kumar Prusty of Puri.
