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Maoists blow up, torch mobile towers in Jharkhand’s Giridih

Maoists blew up a mobile phone tower and torched another one in Jharkhand’s Giridih district in the early hours of Saturday, police said.

The incidents marked the first day of the “resistance week” being observed by the Maoists to protest the arrest of their top leader Prashant Bose, a police officer said. The Maoists at first torched an Airtel tower in the Khukhra police station area.