Kathmandu, May 31: Nobody was injured when Maoists blasted a police outpost at Ratnapur village in Shyangjha district Tuesday and destroyed documents. Police were away on patrol during the attack.
Unidentified persons hurled socket bombs at the Mahendra Sanskrit University and damaged a section of the administration building at Beljhundi in Dang district Tuesday, police said. A bank was looted at another village, Tuesday. Suspected rebels shot dead two persons at Lapsifedi in the outskirts of the capital Wednesday night, police said.
Meanwhile, London based human rights group Amnesty International Wednesday blamed police and Maoists for excesses in an ongoing communist insurgency that has claimed nearly 7,000 lives in more than five years.
AI said police killed 221 rebels while the insurgents killed 82 civilians between November 1999 and October 2000; there was no mention of policemen killed by Maoists in AI’s annual report 2001.