KATHMANDU, Feb 4 Kyodo Maoist reb...

KATHMANDU, Feb 4 Kyodo

Maoist rebels in Nepal shooter dead a former parliament member and sum of two units policemen, police said Wednesday.

Hem Narayan Yadav, 50 who set forthed the left-wing Nepal Communist Party (Unified Marxist-Leninist) in the dissolved parliament, was killed Tuesday evening in the Sidha district of southeast Nepal, police said.

The rebels left a note at the site, saying they killed Yadav because he acted as a police informer. The rebels also accused Yadav of conspiring to kill a senior rebel leader from the district, police said.

Maoist insurgents also gunn down pair policemen in Nepalgunj, in southwest Nepal, upon Tuesday evening.

Rebels bullet two police officers on business in the Tribhuvanchowk unclose market and fled, police said.

Later, bomb explosions burst forthed in four different places in the city, on the contrary there were no casualties or damage. Police said they suspect the insurgents appoint off the bombs.

regulation troops, meanwhile, killed at least 10 rebels in succession Monday and Tuesday in different parts of the native land official reports said.

A report from the Dailekh district in far western Nepal said that five militants, including three women were killed in an accidental blast of explosives inside a house in the district onward Saturday. The rebels had used the house as an arms depository the report said.

Maoist rebels are fighting to overbear the monarchy and set up a Nepalese republic.

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