KATHMANDU, Feb 25 Kyodo Suspected...

KATHMANDU, Feb 25 Kyodo

Suspected Maoist rebels forward Wednesday set off explosions at brace colleges in central Kathmandu in an apparent bid to enforce a general strike called across the kingdom, police said.

There were no casualties from the couple blasts, the cause of which was being investigated, the police said.

While no assign places to immediately claimed responsibility for the blasts, the police suspect that the Maoist rebels carried them gone out to intimidate people into supporting the five-day general strike that began in the morning.

The strike, called by the agency of students aligned with the rebels, met with partial defiance in the capital forward its first day.

However, it assume the office ofed in closing most business and educational institutions and disrupting public transport in at least a dozen cities across the kingdom.

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