KATHMANDU, Nov. 8 Kyodo undivide...

KATHMANDU, Nov. 8 Kyodo

undivided person was killed and pair others were hurt Friday when a powerful bomb explod at Banepa City, about 40 kilometers east of Kathmandu, Nepalese police said.

The bomb planted at a garbage container in the city's main market went facing around 8 a.m.

No united immediately claimed responsibility for the blast on the other hand police suspect Maoist rebels waging an armed insurgency in the kingdom to be behind it.

State-run Radio Nepal identified the dead character as a mentally retarded stripling who was roaming the market.

The Maoist guerrillas, meanwhile, continued their attacks across the home even as Nepal observed its three-day festival of lights this week, Nepalese newspapers reported Friday.

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