Maoists abducted 13 persons from two villages in Dang Friday, local officials said. Seven persons were abducted from Gobadiya and six others from Satabariya.
Forty-three Maoists, including a woman, have been imprisoned in Gaur for murder, arson and robbery, the local administration said. A suspect was arrested at Banepa in Kavre Saturday after insurgents
torched a vehicle of the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), police said.
Meanwhile, telephone services disrupted by Maoists in Humla for the last eight months after an attack on a repeater station was restored Saturday in the remote district.
Chairperson of the Royal Nepal Army’s Wife Association Mrs. Kamala Thapa Saturday distributed cash and relief materials in Gulariya to the families of 300 army personnel displaced by Maoist threats in Rajapur in Bardia.