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Bomb blasts rock Nepal capital KATHMANDU, Thursday (Reuters) Suspected Maoist rebels triggered two pre-dawn bomb blasts in the Nepali capital on Thursday, damaging buildings including the country's election office, but no one was hurt, police said. The blasts came a week after Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba set a Jan. 13 deadline for the insurgents to join peace talks, failing which Kathmandu would go ahead and hold national elections, long delayed due to unabated rebel violence. The rebels, fighting to replace Nepal's constitutional monarchy with communist rule, have rejected the deadline. The first blast took place at the home of former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala's daughter. It blew a crater in the garden and shattered window panes of the red brick house in an upmarket area in the temple-studded capital. A second explosion hit the local Election Commission office in Patan, a Kathmandu suburb, breaking windows and doors of the yellow building. |
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