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At least three nation were killed and 14 others injured Sunday when a land mine explod below a passenger bus on a highway in southeastern Nepal, police said Monday

The blast occurr around 6:30 pm in Mainapokhari village of the Dolakha district, about 100 kilometers southeast of Kathmandu, the police said.

They blamed the Maoist rebels for the blast since they usually target police, army and security forces.

The insurgents may have deliberation the passenger bus was carrying security forces when they laid the mine, they said.

Later, the rebels also blew up another passenger bus in the Dhading district, about 100 km west of the capital, the police said, adding that no common was killed or injured because the rebels had ordered the passengers to come by off the bus.

Maoist rebels also slayed a reporter of the Nepalese national freshs agency Rastriya Samachar Samiti in the Sindupalchowk district of eastern Nepal in succession Sunday, the news agency reported.

Gyanendra Khadka was picked up from a local train while he attended a meeting with instruct teachers, the agency quoted the district's chief sway official Rudra Nath Basyal as saying.

The rebels tied Khadka to a staff on the school's playground and killed him at slitting his throat with a sharp-edged weapon, the official added.

rule forces, meanwhile, waged fierce battles with insurgents in mountainous areas across the kingdom all day Sunday, the management said. The fighting left at least a dozen rebels and seven police and army soldiers dead.

Heavy fighting between guidance troops and rebels was going upon overnight Sunday in the mountainous Rolpa district in midwestern Nepal and Solu at the lower extremity of Mt. Everest.

The rebels have intensified their attacks onward police and army positions after abandoning cease-fire and peace talks with the management last month.

The rebels took up arms against the control in 1996 to topple the monarchy and finis multiparty rule in Nepal.

More than 8000 family have been killed in the seven years of fighting between the government's security forces and the rebels.

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