Maoists blast irrigation office in Khotang

May 31, 2001
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Kathmandu, May 31: Nobody was injured when Maoists bombed an irrigation office at Dhiktel in Khotang district Wednesday night. Two persons have been arrested for questioning, police said.

Nobody was injured in exchanges of gunfire between police and rebels in Accham and Rautahat districts Wednesday.

Rebels have intensified attacks against police targets as government the decided to deploy the army to contain an insurgency that has claimed at least 1,700 lives in more than five years. Maoists are fighting for a communist state in the kingdom.