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* Laid on the the Table and also placed in Library. See No. LT 2872/2005

2. As informed by the State Government, on the 11th of this month at about 1720 hrs. nearly 150 naxalites attacked the district Home Guard Training Centre in Giridih town. The attack was so sudden, swift and camouflaged that the sentry could not react and was overpowered. The naxalites killed three Home Guards and one outsider on the spot and looted 183 guns (31- 4DP rifles, 91 - .4 Mark rifles, 10 - .22 rifles, 51 - .303 rifles), 2 revolvers and about 2500 rounds of ammunition. Prior to the attack at the district Home Guard Training Centre, the naxalites had blocked the other important roads in the town leading to the Training Centre by planting landmines/keeping mines/IEDs in tractors on the road side. Simultaneously, the naxalites blasted a tractor on the Giridih – Jamua road, about 300 yards from the Home Guard Training Centre. The naxalites after looting the weapons, fired randomly at the nearby ongoing Goshala Mela which led to a stampede in the Mela and death of one civilian. They also ambushed a police party on the Giridih-Dumri bypass road killing one Jharkhand Armed Police Constable. The naxalites after the attack fled toward Parasnath, Jhoomra Hills and Ganwa Jungles situated on the border of Jamui district in Bihar.