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on 28-Jun-01 03:30 PM
Maoists plant explosives
Kathmandu, June 28: One of four pipe bombs strung up in Machhendra Bahal in Kathmandu overnight was detonated by police bomb disposal squad on Thursday morning at 09:30. The explosives are wrapped in cloth and hung by string below an electric transformer pole. They appear to be booby trapped, and one of them exploded with a loud bang when police tried to defuse it. No one was hurt and the bomb squad is trying to defuse the other explosives.
Police have cordoned off the area near Indra Chowk which is a lively vegetable market every morning. The explosives appear to be the work of Maoist rebels, and a banner denouncing King Gyanendra and Prime Minister Girija Koirala is still hanging on the electricity pylon. The banner also
demands that the government scrap its new Public Security Regulation. Nepalnews/kd
Army called in to detonate explosives
Kathmandu,June 28: The army's bomb disposal squad had by noon safely detonated three of the four explosives found hanging Thursday morning on a transformer pole at Macchendra Bahal.
Police was deployed in crowd control, and they have cordoned off the entire area from Mahaboudha, Asan, Bhedasingh and Indra Chowk. People in the immediate vicinity are watching from their rooftops as army personnel inflak jackets moved about on the street below. The army's special bomb-disposal van was at the scene and a special gun was aimed and fired by remote control to detonate the rest of the devices. Eye-witnesses at the scene say that although there were big bangs, the exposives do not appear to be destructive since even the transformer pole has not been damaged. nepalnews.com kd
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