Maoist dies while handling explosives in Jharkhand

A Maoist guerrilla was today killed and another injured when a bomb exploded at Goriadih village in Palamau district.

"The incident came to light when a police team stopped a vehicle carrying the injured Maoist to Hussainabad," Superintendent of Police, Anup K Mathew told newsmen here.

The Maoist guerrillas were making bombs from explosives when the incident took place, he said.

The dead person was identified as Satyendra Yadav, brother of CPI-Maoist's self-styled "sub-zonal commander" Anirudih Yadav, who had been killed in Palamau last year, Mathew said. The injured Maoist has been identified as Upendra Yadav. The police also arrested nine other suspected Maoists who accompanied the injured persons, he said.