Maoist guerrillas on Saturday unsuccessfully tried to repeat the May 17 Chingawara tragedy in which they had blown up a passenger bus and killed 35 people by targeting another civilian bus in Chhat-tisgarh’s Bijapur district, reports reaching here said.
The bus, carrying 70 passengers, managed to dodge the landmine blast triggered by the insurgents at a place around 40 km from the district headquarters town in Bijapur, averting certain disaster. Police sources said the explosion took place a few yards from the road embankment, allowing the bus to escape.