KATHMANDU, DEC 16 - Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Chuda Bahadur Shrestha and two other security officials escaped attempts on their lives by Maoist rebels who exploded a powerful landmine bomb targeting their vehicles at Madaha on the East-West Highway in Mahottari this morning.
Superintendent of Police in Mahottari, Chhokpa Sherpa and Major Kedar KC of Gorakh Baks Gulm at Prakauli were travelling in Shrestha’s vehicle that came over the landmine blast.
They were heading toward Malangawa, the district headquarters of Sarlahi, to take part in a meeting of joint security forces when the rebels made an attempt on their lives by detonating a landmine in the dense forest area located about 50 km north of Jaleshwor, the district headquarters of Mahottari. Security officials said the explosion was so powerful that it created a five-foot deep crater. The rebels had planted the bomb near a bridge where the blacktopping had been washed away by floods last year.
In Dailekh, rebel Maoists killed Dev Kumari Chand, 21, the chairperson of Women Empowerment Forum. She was abducted last week. In a public notice pasted on the wall of a house in Naumule said that she was killed on charges of spying against them and persuading her brother to quit Maoist ideology.
Locals said that the rebels had publicly humiliated her accusing of being an informer to security forces in seven corner meetings before she was shot dead. Her elder brother, who set out of his home in search of her, is also missing. The forum was funded by Swiss Development Agency, Helvetas and British donor agency DFID.
A report from Pokhara has it that two students and a man were injured today when they tried to remove a banner bomb hung by the rebels over the Pokhara-Baglung road at Dhikur Pokhari, about 28 km from Pokhara. Nine-year-old Som Prasad Bharati, a student of grade three, Mana Kumari Pun, 11, a grade four student and Ram Chandra Adhikari, 48, were injured in the bomb blast. They were rushed to regional hospital in Pokhara.
In Salyan, a group of Maoist rebels abducted five civilians in Chautara Village last night.
Eyewitnesses said that the rebels kidnapped them at gunpoint when they were chatting among themselves inside a house. But the names of those abducted by the rebels could not be identified immediately. They were moved to an unknown location, said the report.Posted on: 2003-12-17 04:15

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