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100 rebels may have died in huge gun battle KATHMANDU, Monday (AFP) As many as 100 Maoist rebels could have been killed in a huge battle with security forces in western Nepal, army sources said Monday. The sources, quoting witnesses to Sunday's clash near the village of Sini in Achham district, said the bodies of 35 insurgents had been carried away, while altogether as many as 100 rebels could have been killed in the heavy fighting. There was no way of independently verifying the death toll from the clash which took place in a remote part of the Himalayan kingdom. On Sunday, army officials said five rebels and two troops had been killed in the violence, which they said began after a group of Maoists attacked an army patrol. "Eyewitnesses said the Maoists had carried away the bodies of their dead in bamboo baskets or simply chopped off their heads to conceal their identities," the newspaper said. Meanwhile four bomb blasts rocked Nepal's capital Kathmandu on Monday, killing a 12-year-old boy and wounding at least five other people, police said. No one has claimed responsibility but police suspect Maoist rebels set off the explosions at government installations. Further details were not immediately available. |
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