Maoists today blew up a police jeep, killing a policeman and injuring four others at Jaranga village in Jharkhand's Khunti district today.
The inspector-general of police, V Deshmukh, said the jeep oveturned under the impact of the blast. He ruled out landmine causing the blast.
All injured have been admitted to a hospital in Ranchi.
Maoists also blew up a middle school, Anant Madhya Vidyala, at Pratappur in Chatra district last night after placing dynamite in the rooms.
The school was one of a clusters where voting was to take place on December 18 for the assembly polls, the police said.
This was the fourth school in three days to have been blown up by the Maoists in Jharkhand. On Tuesday, they had demolished two schools in Palamau district and one in Giridih district.
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