Maoists have continued their attacks on schools across the country by bombing the school in Kailali run by the high school teacher of their leader, Baburam Bhattarai.

In the attack on Wednesday night, they entered the school grounds, threatened the guards, ransacked the offices and blew up the main building after wiring it up with explosives, school sources told Nepalnews.

The non-profit school was run by J Varughese, an Indian pedagogue who in the 1960’s taught at the Luitel School in Gorkha where Baburam Bhattarai was his student. Varughese was out of the country when the attack happened and the 200 students were on holiday.

Sources in Kailali said the school had received several extortion threats in the recent past and was the only non-government school still open in the far-western district.

The school catered to under-privileged children from neglected sections of society.