KATHMANDU, Nov. 9 Kyodo Unidentif...

KATHMANDU, Nov. 9 Kyodo

Unidentified gunmen onward Saturday shot dead a Nepalese man serving as a guard at the U Embassy in Kathmandu, police said.

Deepak Pokharel was slain at his residence in local Buddhanagar in the Nepalese capital at around 3:30 pm

''He was a member of our local guard force,'' Constance Jone director of the U Information Agency, said, adding, ''He was not on duty when he was killed.''

Pokharel is the next to the first Nepalese security staff member at the U Embassy to fall victim to gunfire in Kathmandu.

Last year, a Nepalese security staff member useed by the embassy was shooter dead near the office of the U Agency for International exhibition in local Rabibhawan.

The identity of the killers in the two cases remains unknown.

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