Train passengers looted at gunpoint in Bihar

Varanasi (UP), Mar 01: Armed robbers today looted cash and valuables worth lakhs of rupees from the passengers of Patna-Sikarandabad Express between Buxur and Mughalsarai stations in Bihar, officials said here. The robbers, said to be between eight to ten in number, barged into two coaches of the train at Buxur station and looted the passengers at gunpoint, GRP cantonment inspector Sheshnath Singh Yadav said. The robbers also assaulted some passengers when they resisted, he said, adding no one was injured in the incident. The angry passengers registered their protest with the railway authorities at Mughalsarai junction when the train reached there, Yadav said, adding an FIR has been lodged in this connection.