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Maoist rebels bomb Kathmandu building, no injuries |
2004-12-10 |
Maoists rebels set off a powerful bomb in the Nepali capital on Thursday, causing no casualties but leaving a large part of a government building in ruins, police said. The explosion came a week after two blasts in Kathmandu blamed on Maoist rebels fighting to topple the impoverished kingdom's constitutional monarchy. No one was hurt in those blasts either. At Thursday's bomb site, damaged computer monitors, broken chairs and cupboards were visible amid the rubble, after the central portions of the first and second storeys of the building collapsed. The building houses the offices of the state-run Agricultural Inputs Company. Police said two young men entered the building compound before office hours, |
Posted by:Steve White |