- Title: NEPAL: NEPAL BUS BOMB WOUNDS THREE , POLICE BLAME MAOIST REBELS
- Date: 7th March 2004
- Summary: KATHMANDU, NEPAL (MARCH 7, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. SLV PEOPLE GATHERED AROUND BUS AND BLAST SITE 0.07 2. SV DAMAGED BUS 0.12 3. CU OF THE DAMAGED FRONT PORTION OF THE BUS 0.16 4. MCU MEN PEEPING INTO THE BUS 0.23 5. SV DAMAGED INTERIORS OF THE BUS 0.30 6. SV OF PEOPLE STANDING NEAR THE BUS 0.35 7. MCU (Nepali) RAM
- Embargoed: 22nd March 2004 12:00
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- Location: KATHMANDU, NEPAL
- Country: Nepal
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- Story Text: Nepal bus bomb wounds three, police blame Maoist rebels.
Three people were wounded on Sunday (March 7, 2004) when a
bomb exploded in a bus in the Nepalese capital of
Kathmandu, and police said they suspected Maoist rebels
were responsible.
The passengers had disembarked in the heart of the
Nepalese capital and there was no one in the vehicle when
the bomb went off. Among those injured were two women and a
man.
"We went away and immediately it exploded. It was said
the bus was in service during the Nepal shutdown, that's
why they planted the bomb," said bus driver Ram Krishna.
The bus blast was the latest in a series of explosions in
Kathmandu blamed on the Maoist rebels, who are fighting to
overthrow Nepal's constitutional monarchy and set up a
communist state.
Troops carrying automatic weapons were patrolling the
streets of the capital in what officials said was a
tightening of security before a general strike called for
on Monday (March 8) by a women's group linked to the
rebels. This is the fifth strike in the country in less
than a month.
There has been a marked increase in violence in the
mountainous Himalayan kingdom since peace talks between the
government and the Maoists failed last August.
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