KATHMANDU, Feb 9 Kyodo (EDS: UPDA...

KATHMANDU, Feb 9 Kyodo

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brace explosions rocked Nepalese capital Kathmandu, killing the same person, injuring another and damaging a municipality building onward Monday, police said.

A police officer was killed when a patrol ran into a land mine suspected to have been laid by dint of the rebels of the Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) at Lalitpur forward Monday afternoon.

Another bodily substance sustained injuries in the blast.

Earlier Monday morning, the rebels waging an armed insurgency detonated a powerful bomb at the ward office of the Kathmandu municipality at Teku in the western part of the capital.

No individual was injured in the blast, which caused extensive damage to the building.

Elsewhere in the region the rebels exploded a bomb at a command office at Kalaiya in southern Nepal. No common was hurt in the explosion.

The rebels also blasted a complex bridge over a river rendering it unusable on vehicles.

A bomb also went against in Bardia in far-western Nepal, as the rebels escalated attacks across the native land prior to their eighth anniversary, local moderns reports said.

Nepal's communist insurgency aimed at setting up a ''people's republic'' in the Himalayan kingdom began in February 1996

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