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| Bomb explodes in Kathmandu near planned electoral assembly venue |
| 2008-04-07 |
| A bomb went off in Nepal's capital of Kathmandu on Monday afternoon near a venue where a political gathering was planned, but only one person was injured, police said. An unidentified pedestrian was injured in the blast that occurred in the Baneswore area where members of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala's Nepali Congress party were scheduled to gather, Senior Superintendent of Police Surendra Bahadur Shah said. "A police team has reached the site to initiate an investigation," Shah said. No group has claimed responsibility for the blast. Nepali Congress later in the day went ahead with the electoral gathering despite the explosion, the fourth to occur in the capital in the past four days. Nepal is electing a key Constituent Assembly on April 10 to cap a peace process with former Maoist rebels whose 10-year insurgency that ended in 2006 left over 13,000 people dead. |
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