A Maoist guerrilla was on Wednesday lynched in Jharkhand when he and a colleague went to a village to extort money and threaten the residents, police said.

The incident in Segaisai village in West Singhbhum district, about 300 km from here, took place in the early hours of the morning when two members of the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) went there to collect money and threaten the villagers against helping the police, officials said.