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Bihar balloting picks up amid incidents of violence

Patna: Nearly 32 percent of the electorate voted in the first six hours Thursday in Bihar's six Lok Sabha constituencies despite incidents of violence in the state."So far about 32 percent of the electorate has

Additional Director General of Police Ravinder Kumar said the injured security personnel were admitted to a hospital.

After the incident, the Jamui district administration cancelled election at 12 polling booths.

Security forces also recovered two IEDs from the spot.

Also, five cane bombs - two in Gaya and three in Aurangabad parliamentary constituencies - were recovered from near polling booths.

In another incident, Maoists blasted a state-run school in Bihar's Lakhisarai district, police said, adding three live cane bombs were also recovered from the school premises.