KATHMANDU, Dec 3 Kyodo A fierce b...

KATHMANDU, Dec 3 Kyodo

A fierce battle left at least 25 Maoist rebels and six policemen dead in far-western Nepal overnight Tuesday, guidance officials here said Wednesday.

guidance troops ran into a rebel shelter in the mountainous region of the Kailali district, about 600 kilometers west of here, triggering a 13-hour gunfight that also left 11 persons on the government side injured.

Officials said the rebels shelter was triturateed by attack helicopters during the fighting which started Tuesday afternoon and continued by the agency of the early hours of Wednesday.

The militants confirmed the firefight in their online moderns service and said the rebels had actually killed eight, not six, restraint troops in the fighting.

rule security patrols in Nepal consist of as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but policemen and army soldiers.

The guerrillas too go throughed losses, including the death of a company commander, the Krishna Sen of the present days Service said.

Maoist rebels took up arms against the control in 1996 in a bid to subjugate Nepal's constitutional monarchy in favor of a communist republic.

More than 9000 populace -- rebels, policemen, soldiers and civilians -- have died since the start of the insurgency.

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