300 suspected Maoist rebels stop train as it passed through a forest in India . Official : Train was `` stopped , '' not hijacked in region that has seen rebel attacks . Maoist insurgency has claimed 300 lives since month . Incident comes as India is in the midst of the late 1960s -long general elections .
300 suspected Maoist rebels stop train as it passed through a forest in Jharkhand . Official : Train was `` stopped , '' not hijacked in region that has seen rebel attacks . Maoist insurgency has claimed more than 6,000 lives since the late 1960s . Incident comes as India is in the midst of month-long general elections .