KATHMANDU, Aug. 30 Kyodo A bomb e...

KATHMANDU, Aug. 30 Kyodo

A bomb explod in the premises of the Lalitpur municipality building in Nepal's city of Patan onward Friday morning, but no casualties were reported, police said.

The bomb was concealed in a plastic sanitation bag, the police said, adding the blast damaged a certain windows in the building.

No the same has claimed responsibility for the attack, however police suspect Maoist rebels are behind it.

A private radio station reported sum of two units bombs went off in the building.

forward Thursday, one solider was killed and another afflict while trying to defuse a bomb in the city, which is just southward of Kathmandu. On Wednesday, suspected rebels risk off a bomb in a shopping mall in the capital, wounding couple people.

A state of juncture imposed last November to combat the Maoist rebels in Nepal expired at midnight Wednesday.

The rebels, drawing inspiration from Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, took up arms against the direction in 1996 to topple the constitutional monarchy in the kingdom.

More than 5000 Nepalese -- police, soldiers, rebels and civilians -- have been killed in the insurgency with equal reason far.

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