Hyderabad, Sept. 3 -- A 60-year-old tribal man was killed after a landmine exploded on Karreguttalu hillocks in Telangana's Mulugu district on Wednesday evening, police said.

The hillocks, located along the Chhattisgarh border, were once strongholds of the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist).

The deceased, Madakam Nageswara Rao of Nugur village in Venkatapuram mandal, was collecting bamboo in the forest with five other tribal villagers when he allegedly stepped on an improvised explosive device (IED) at Bedemgutta, about 10 km from their village, police said. The others escaped unhurt.

"He, along with five other tribal villagers, had gone into the forests on Karreguttalu hillocks to collect bamboo," a police officer from Venkata...