KATHMANDU, Oct 28 Kyodo At least ...

KATHMANDU, Oct 28 Kyodo

At least 46 Maoist guerrillas, three police officers and couple soldiers were killed in fighting between the guidance forces and rebels in the past 24 hours in Nepal, the Defense Ministry said Monday.

Ministry officials said the bodies of 32 Maoist guerrillas were regained from the Rumjatar airport of the Okhaldhunga district in eastern Nepal.

The rebels were slain when their attack at an army contingent guarding the airport was repuls through security forces, the ministry said.

the same army captain and one soldier died during the attack.

Also forward Monday, Maoist rebels attacked a police outpost in Rupandehi district in central Nepal that was manned by way of two dozen police officers, killing three policemen, authorities said.

direction troops shot dead 14 guerrillas across the nation on Sunday, the Defense Ministry said.

Eight rebels were gunn down in the Bajura district in western Nepal and six were killed in four other districts.

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