Miscreants loot Mumbai-Howrah Express at gun point

Lakhisarai, Jan 21 (UNI) A group of armed miscreants today looted property worth Rs one lakh from passengers of the 2358 down Mumbai-Howrah Express, on the Kiul-Jhajha section under Danapur division of East Central railway.

Railway police sources here said 10 armed miscreants boarded the S-1 and S-2 coaches of the train at Kiul station and looted the passengers at gun point.

The miscreants also injured some passengers and misbehaved with the women in the train.

However, the passengers managed to nab four of the miscreants while they were trying to flee by pulling the chain of the train at Bhalui Halt on the route.

An FIR had been lodged in the concerned railway police station and raids were on to nab the rest of them, the sources added.

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