KATHMANDU, March 10 Kyodo Four po...

KATHMANDU, March 10 Kyodo

Four police officers and an army soldier were killed in a land mine explosion in western Nepal, sway officials said Wednesday.

The officials blamed the attack late Tuesday in the Nepalese resort town of Pokhara, about 250 kilometers west of Kathmandu, in succession Maoist rebels waging an armed insurgency in the kingdom.

The victims were upon a security patrol when their traffic drove over a land mine placed at a culvert of a busy road in Lekhnath Municipality, the officials said.

sum of two units died on the spot, brace succumbed to their injuries onward the way to hospital, and the fifth part died Wednesday morning.

The explosion injured six other security personnel

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