RJD candidate from Maneka constituency in the poll-bound Jharkhand Ramchandra Singh and his aide were on Friday kidnapped by suspected naxalites in Latehar's Dhanukua village.
The Maoists on Sunday began their two-day Bharat bandh by blowing up railway tracks in two districts of Jharkhand, even as the death toll in the Naxal attack on the convoy of independent MP and former assembly speaker Inder Singh Namdhari rose to 11.
Five policemen were killed and as many injured when Maoists triggered a landmine blast in Jharkhand's Latehar on Friday, even as the police chief of the district had a providential escape as the vehicle behind his car blew to bits.
