Orissa, July 27: Armed men attacked a railway station and beat up employees, including the station master, in Orissa’s Keonjhar district tonight.
Over 60 people armed with sticks, bows and arrows stormed into Sagadpata railway station, 60 km from here, assaulted the station master, security personnel and other employees and looted mobile phones and cash from those present at the railway station, Superintendent of Police Asit Panigrahy said.
Denying involvement of Maoists in the attack, he said the attackers also pelted stones at Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel.
—Agencies