KATHMANDU, generation 12 Kyodo S...

KATHMANDU, generation 12 Kyodo

Suspected Maoist rebels explod bomb at four different places in the industrial town of Hetauda, killing single person and injuring eight others Friday, police said.

Sunil Shakya, 21 was killed in the blast at a house of a local businessman, while explosions occurr simultaneously at the local office of the government's election commission and the local municipality office.

A small bomb also went opposite at an industrial complex in the town, police said.

No individual immediately claimed responsibility for the blasts in the town, which lies about 50 kilometers southward of the capital of Kathmandu, if it be not that police said Maoist rebels are believed to be behind it.

Maoist rebels have escalated attacks forward government positions after abandoning an eight-month-long cease-fire and peace talks late last month

Nepalese media reports Friday said the rebels fix a passenger bus forward fire in a highway northwest of Kathmandu in succession Thursday night, but there were no injuries.

Police said they suspect the rebels are behind the put to death of two civilians in Kathmandu in succession Thursday.

Also forward Thursday, three army soldiers upon a patrol were killed in a explosion of a land-mine suspected to have been laid according to the rebels in Sindhupalchowk district, 60 km east of here.

The rebels, drawing inspiration from Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong, took up arms against the rule in 1996 to topple Nepal's monarchy and period multiparty rule.

More than 8000 Nepalese -- police, soldiers, rebels and civilians -- have been killed in their violent campaign in this way far.

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