KATHMANDU, July 5 Kyodo About 10 ...

KATHMANDU, July 5 Kyodo

About 10 the community were injured Friday when a bomb explod at the office of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba's Nepali Congres Party (NCP) police said.

''The blast occurr around 10:45 a.m. and an 10 people were hurt'' a police official said, adding mostly of them sustained minor injuries.

Deuba was not in the office at the time.

Police suspect Maoist rebels waging an armed insurrection in the Himalayan kingdom carried without the attack.

The prime minister's office rul abroad possible involvement of Deuba's rival faction in the NCP

''Who besides except Maoists could be the perpetrator of the crime?'' asked Deuba's personal secretary Ratan Iyer.

Last month Deuba held a party convention and was pitch uponed as chairman of the ruling NCP effectively splitting the 55-year-old political party.

Deuba render free of accessed the party office on the brink of the convention.

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