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The Maoists are still at it in Nepal! Where are our anti-terrorists? I can't beleive that we are standing around while the ba$tards are blowing up SCHOOLS and HOSPITALS!
I received the following email from my friend Steve in Kathmandu.
"Bill,
This was about 300 - 400 meters from our house.
Steve"
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Bomb Blast in Bansbari
A bomb went off at Bansbari in Kathmandu, in the vicinity of the Sahid Ganga Lal heart hospital and Chandbagh school at 7:15 am, police said.
According to locals, some Maoists with weapons went to the school compound around 6:30 am, overpowered two guards on duty and put a bomb in the reception. Then they set fire to the 4 buses in the compound and left.
On their way out, they left another bomb in a plastic jug on the road that separates the hospital and the school. This second bomb has been defused by the army bomb disposal squad, the latest reports state.
There were no injuries when the first bomb went off. The extent of the damage to the school building and the buses is not clear.
As of 10:30 am, the army and police have returned things back to normal in the area. nepalnews.com dr Sept. 23
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Suspected rebels bomb Kathmandu school, no injuries
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - About 15 suspected Maoist rebels forced their way into a school in the Nepali capital on Tuesday and hurled a bomb but no one was wounded, police said.
The blast shattered windows of four buses parked in the compound of Chaandbag school in Kathmandu's upscale residential area early in the morning. There were no students in the school at the time of the blast, a police official told Reuters.
"The blast damaged buses and the reception area of the school but no one was hurt," he said.
Kathmandu has suffered a string of small bomb blasts in recent weeks after a state of emergency imposed last November to crush the Maoist rebellion lapsed on August 28.
Police said Maoist rebels, campaigning for a one-party communist republic, could be behind the latest blast but no one has claimed responsibility.
The guerrillas raided two security posts early this month killing at least 109 police officers and soldiers and lost about 100 of their comrades in those attacks.
Officials said soldiers stepped up attacks on hideouts and killed at least 114 rebels, mainly in the Maoist strongholds in western Nepal, over the weekend.
More than 5,000 people, most of them guerrillas, have died in the insurgency that started in early 1996 -- more than 3,000 of them since last November when rebels walked out of peace talks and attacked security posts.
I received the following email from my friend Steve in Kathmandu.
"Bill,
This was about 300 - 400 meters from our house.
Steve"
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Bomb Blast in Bansbari
A bomb went off at Bansbari in Kathmandu, in the vicinity of the Sahid Ganga Lal heart hospital and Chandbagh school at 7:15 am, police said.
According to locals, some Maoists with weapons went to the school compound around 6:30 am, overpowered two guards on duty and put a bomb in the reception. Then they set fire to the 4 buses in the compound and left.
On their way out, they left another bomb in a plastic jug on the road that separates the hospital and the school. This second bomb has been defused by the army bomb disposal squad, the latest reports state.
There were no injuries when the first bomb went off. The extent of the damage to the school building and the buses is not clear.
As of 10:30 am, the army and police have returned things back to normal in the area. nepalnews.com dr Sept. 23
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Suspected rebels bomb Kathmandu school, no injuries
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - About 15 suspected Maoist rebels forced their way into a school in the Nepali capital on Tuesday and hurled a bomb but no one was wounded, police said.
The blast shattered windows of four buses parked in the compound of Chaandbag school in Kathmandu's upscale residential area early in the morning. There were no students in the school at the time of the blast, a police official told Reuters.
"The blast damaged buses and the reception area of the school but no one was hurt," he said.
Kathmandu has suffered a string of small bomb blasts in recent weeks after a state of emergency imposed last November to crush the Maoist rebellion lapsed on August 28.
Police said Maoist rebels, campaigning for a one-party communist republic, could be behind the latest blast but no one has claimed responsibility.
The guerrillas raided two security posts early this month killing at least 109 police officers and soldiers and lost about 100 of their comrades in those attacks.
Officials said soldiers stepped up attacks on hideouts and killed at least 114 rebels, mainly in the Maoist strongholds in western Nepal, over the weekend.
More than 5,000 people, most of them guerrillas, have died in the insurgency that started in early 1996 -- more than 3,000 of them since last November when rebels walked out of peace talks and attacked security posts.
