NEPAL: MAOIST REBELS DETONATE BOMB IN CAPITAL ONE DAY AFTER KING GYANENDRA APPOINTED NEW PRIME MINISTER LOKENDRA BAHADUR CHAND

Record ID: 358608

  • Title: NEPAL: MAOIST REBELS DETONATE BOMB IN CAPITAL ONE DAY AFTER KING GYANENDRA APPOINTED NEW PRIME MINISTER LOKENDRA BAHADUR CHAND
  • Date: 12th October 2002
  • Summary: (W3) KATHMANDU, NEPAL (OCTOBER 12, 2002) (REUTERS) 1. SLV SOLDIERS IN FRONT OF DAMAGED MONUMENT COVERED WITH RED CLOTH AFTER BLAST; SLV SECURITY FORCES AT SCENE OF BLAST 0.09 2. MV WOUNDED LYING IN HOSPITAL 0.14 3. MV WOUNDED MAN WHO LOST HIS LEG 0.19 4. SLV CITY STREETS NEAR SITE OF BOMB BLAST; NEPAL STREET SCENES (4 SHOTS) 0.36
  • Embargoed: 27th October 2002 12:00
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  • Location: KATHMANDU, NEPAL
  • Country: Nepal
  • Reuters ID: LVA535YG9VPJJYFKF926VV92AZCZ
  • Story Text: Just a day after Nepali King Gyanendra appointed new
    Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand suspected Maoist rebels
    have detonated a bomb in the capital Kathmandu, killing one
    and injuring eight,
    The bomb exploded in the early morning on Saturday
    (October 12, 2002) in a street lined with shops near a traffic
    island where a bust of King Mahendra, Gyanendra's father,
    stands on a marble pedestal.

    The device was covered with red cloth and blood stained
    the road in the Kalimati district hours after the bomb
    exploded.

    Officials said the bomb, which exploded at about 5 a.m.

    (2315 GMT), was probably detonated by rebels. The injured were
    being treated at a government hospital.

    Kathmandu has been hit by a series of blasts in recent
    weeks but there have been no casualties reported until
    Saturday's explosion.

    Nepal's new Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand said on
    Saturday his interim government will invite Maoist rebels to
    peace talks in a bid to end a revolt that has killed thousands
    and damaged the economy.

    Illustrating the violence that has beset Nepal since the
    revolt began, suspected rebels detonated a bomb in the capital
    on Saturday, killing one person. It was the third blast in the
    capital in little more a week.

    He said a formal decision to invite the Maoists would be
    taken after consultations with the interim cabinet and the end
    of a week-long festival that began Saturday.

    Chand was appointed prime minister by King Gyanendra, who
    dismissed the previous prime minister and assumed power last
    week in a row over the timing of elections.

    Gyanendra's decision to sack the previous prime minister
    and assume power plunged the Himalayan kingdom into fresh
    turmoil after last year's palace massacre in which most of the
    royal family died and as it battles an increasingly violent
    Maoist revolt.

    More than 5,000 people have been killed in the insurgency
    aimed at establishing one-party communist rule in the world's
    only Hindu kingdom.

    About 3,000 people have died since the rebels walked out
    of peace talks held last November and stepped up attacks
    against security forces and government installations.


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