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US envoy unhurt as Nepal Maoists stone car
KATHMANDU - Maoist activists stoned a car carrying the US envoy in southeast Nepal on Friday but the diplomat was not hurt, police and officials said. Members of the Young Communist League (YCL), the Maoists youth wing, hurled stones at the car outside the U.N. refugee agency office in the town of Damak, police officer Narayan Chimouriya told Reuters by telephone. Damak is about 300 km (200 miles) southeast of Kathmandu.The stones hit the vehicle and caused some scratches to the car but the ambassador is safe, Chimouriya said. A US embassy spokeswoman said Ambassador James F. Moriarty, on a tour of UN-supported camps housing tens of thousands of refugees from nearby Bhutan, was unhurt. Moriarty has been critical of the Maoists, who signed a peace deal with the government in November and joined an interim administration last month. No arrests had yet been made and there was no immediate comment from the YCL.
Posted by: Steve White 2007-05-26 |
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