Kathmandu, June 1: Maoists have intensified their activities nation-wide as more clashes with police were reported this week. Some rebels were injured in an exchange of gunfire with a police patrol at Madeyahi village in Rautahat Wednesday night.

The  insurgents fled with the injured. Maoists set ablaze the Small Farmers Development project office destroying documents at Dhanauri in Dang district Wednesday, police said. Police arrested senior Maoist leader Karna Dhoj Khadka in Lalitpur without an arrest warrant Thursday, party
sources said.