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KATHMANDU, Friday (AFP) Maoist rebels Thursday acknowledged the Nepalese army killed a top commander in a fierce battle this week but denied a state media report that 50 guerrillas were also killed.

P The Maoist leadership in a statement said 12 rebels engaged in an all-night clash that erupted late Tuesday at Pandun in the southwestern Kailali district.

P It said the dead included a guerrilla known as Prahar who commanded one of the 16 battalions of the Maoists' self-styled "People's Liberation Army."

P He was the second "battalion commander" to die in the nearly eight-year insurgency. The first died in a 2001 battle.

P But the Maoists dismissed a report by state-run radio that 50 rebels were killed at Pandun. An army official said Thursday that troops had recovered 46 bodies of guerrillas.

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