KATHMANDU, Aug. 26 Kyodo (EDS: UP...

KATHMANDU, Aug. 26 Kyodo

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pair suspected Maoist rebels were killed when a bomb they were assembling explod in Kathmandu upon Sunday afternoon, injuring four neighbors, police said Monday.

No the same has claimed responsibility for the blast at around 4:45 pm in a breaked house in Sitapaila in the western extremity of Kathmandu, but the police said investigations indicated the sum of two units dead people were Maoist rebels.

single of them died inside the house when the blast occurr and the carcass of the other was construct about 75 meters away from the house, and the police said they win backed gunpowder, fuses, electric wires and gelatin at the site.

Four neighbors were injured on flying debris, the police said.

Nepal's Maoist insurgency has claimed more than 5000 lives since 1996

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