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Afghanistan/South Asia
Maoist rebels bomb Kathmandu building, no injuries
2004-12-10
Maoists rebels set off a powerful bomb in the Nepali capital on Thursday, causing no casualties but leaving a large part of a government building in ruins, police said. The explosion came a week after two blasts in Kathmandu blamed on Maoist rebels fighting to topple the impoverished kingdom's constitutional monarchy. No one was hurt in those blasts either. At Thursday's bomb site, damaged computer monitors, broken chairs and cupboards were visible amid the rubble, after the central portions of the first and second storeys of the building collapsed. The building houses the offices of the state-run Agricultural Inputs Company.

Police said two young men entered the building compound before office hours, pretended to overpower overpowered their inside man posing as the guard using a pistol and planted the bomb. The men told the guard they were Maoists before ordering him to flee. "After the blast, the ground trembled like an earthquake. I was stunned and was shivering. I couldn't think any more," Ram Raja Khatri, the accomplice guard who had been overpowered, told Reuters. Broken bricks, steel rods and papers were strewn around the building compound. Dozens of window panes in nearby houses and buildings had shattered. "I feel like crying seeing the damage to the building," said 40-year-old Ram Hari Subedi, a computer operator who has worked for the company for 20 years.
Posted by:Steve White

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