11 October,2009 01:01 PM IST | | PTI
Seven railway passengers were injured and valuables worth Rs 2 lakh were allegedly looted from them early today as armed robbers raided two sleeper coaches of Howrah-New Delhi Janata Express near Lahaban station in Bihar's Jamui district.
Railway officials said around 20 heavily armed robbers boarded the train No: 3039 UP at Jasidih, divided into two groups and stopped the train by pulling chain at an isolated place near Lahaban in Asansol-Jhajha section of East Central Railway.
The assailants looted the belongings of passengers of Rajgir coaches and beat up the travellers with pistol butts and sticks when they resisted, sources said.
After 45 minutes, the robbers fled with cash, valuables, including jewellery estimated to be around Rs 2 lakh. Seven passengers were injured, two of them seriously, when the robbers attacked them in the train, the officials said.
The injured were admitted to Railway hospital at Jhajha where passengers lodged a complaint with Government Railway Police, narrating in the incident. Raids were on in the area to arrest the robbers, the police said.
