Maoists blow up store room in Jharkhand

Maoists blew up a store room of the irrigation department at Sonua in Jharkhand's extremist-hit West Singhbhum district on Diwali night.

None were injured in the blast as the store room had been abandoned about eight years ago, district police superintendent Akhilesh Kumar Jha said.

Construction material like cement used during the construction of Pansuwan Dam in the area was kept in the store room.

A combing operation has been launched in the area to flush out ultras, he said.