Eleven locals were injured Saturday when the Maoist rebels exploded a pressure cooker bomb at a restaurant in Saibu VDC of Lalitpur district, some three kilometers south of the ring road, police said.

A group of unidentified men entered the Karyabinayak restaurant situated in Chhayasipot of Saibu and exploded a pressure cooker bomb after taking control of the man in the counter. The injured were rushed to the Patan hospital immediately. Of those injured two have been asked to stay back at the hospital while the rest have been discharged after treatment. The security personnel had cordoned the area immediately after the explosion and had started the search operation.