Maoist rebels targeted a polling team killing one security man in Giridih district Wednesday morning as the second phase of polling for 14 of the 81 assembly seats in Jharkhand began.

"Maoist rebels triggered an IED (improvised explosive device) blast when polling team members were going to the polling booth around 5 a.m. In the blast one security personnel of CISF (Central Industrial Security Force) has been killed. Polling team members were going by foot when the blast took place," Jharkhand police spokesperson V.H. Deshmukh told IANS.