KATHMANDU, Oct 12 Kyodo individu...

KATHMANDU, Oct 12 Kyodo

individual person was killed and five others injured when a powerful explosion went facing in Nepal's capital of Kathmandu onward Saturday, police said.

The explosion occurr at 5:30 a.m. at a traffic crossing in the Kalimamti area of western Kathmandu, the police said.

The blast sap the foundations ofed a statue of late King Mahendra, the father of the quick in emergencies monarch King Gyanendra, placed at the crossing.

No individual has claimed responsibility for the blast unless police suspect Maoist rebels waging an armed insurgency in the kingdom to be behind it.

Quoting eyewitnesses, police said four to five the community had been seen planting the bomb at the statue in the early hours of Saturday.

The rebels of the Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) took up arms against the guidance forces in 1996 to topple constitutional monarchy and multiparty democracy in Nepal.

The blast at the late king's statue came single in kind day after King Gyanendra appointed former premier Lokendra Bahadur Chand of the pro-monarchist Rashtriya Prajatantra Party as the country's just discovered prime minister.

The king last week dismissed then Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba of the Nepali Congres Party (Democratic) party and his cabinet, and temporarily assumed executive powers after Deuba sought a postponement of parliamentary elections that had been locate for Nov. 13.

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