Wednesday, 4 July, 2001, 09:49 GMT 10:49 UK Bomb shakes Nepalese capital A bomb has exploded in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, near the official residence of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala. There are no reports of casualties or major damage in the blast, which the authorities suspect might be the work of Maoist rebels. Full text: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1421000/1421404.stm
Maoists escalate violence Kathmandu, July 4: Maoists have escalated attacks against targets nation-wide, killing, injuring or abducting more than 60 policemen Tuesday and Wednesday ahead of a nation-wide strike next Thursday to protest what they call arbitrary imposition of stiff rules to curb freedoms. Three policemen were killed and more than 50 others abducted in separate incidents in Banke and Rolpa districts in far west Nepal, police said. Rebels torched a vehicle ferrying officials of a corporate body in the city outskirts Wednesday morning at gunpoint, police said. More than 1,700 persons have been killed in a communist insurgency in more than five years. nepalnews.com br http://www.nepalnews.com.np/archive/2001/july/arc237.htm#5
Rebels intensify attack in Valley Bomb explosions at Balaju, Bafal Post Report KATHMANDU, July 3 - A powerful bomb went off Tuesday afternoon inside Balaju Textile Mill premises at Balaju Industrial Area causing property damage worth more than two million rupees. Police suspect Maoist rebels behind the attack, which came barely a week after the underground rebels hung explosives with an anti-establishment banner in the heart of the Capital. Later in the afternoon another bomb, left hung with a pro-Maoist banner, went off at Bafal area in western parts of the city, forcing locals to panic in fear. No one was hurt in the incident. No casualties were reported in the Balaju incident as all the Textile Mill workers were out for snacks, but witnesses and police said the noise of the explosion was heard several kilometres away. Soon after the explosion rocked the north-western part of the city, policemen from the Area Police Office Balaju and Sorhakhutte, and the Kathmandu District Police reached the site. Full text: http://www.nepalnews.com.np/contents/englishdaily/ktmpost/2001/jul/jul04/ind ex.htm#1