Maoists have regretted the bombing of the World Food Programme (WFP) office in Damak, Jhapa, on Thursday, saying that it occurred ‘by mistake’.

Issuing a press statement, in-charge of the ‘Mechi Sub-bureau’ of the CPN (Maoist), Rajendra, said his party regretted the grenade explosion inside a godown of the WPF and added that “it took place mistakenly” while bombing several government offices in the area.

“We don’t have a policy to attack the UN organisations. We want to assure that our behaviour with this organisation [UN] will be friendly and we want to be self-critical about the explosion,” the release stated.

The rebels had carried out simultaneous blasts at the WFP office and Nepal Telecom, Land Revenue Office and the Agricultural Development Bank’s offices in Damak on Thursday morning. Though no human casualty was reported, property worth millions was destroyed in the blasts.

The UN Systems in Kathmandu and several other organisations have condemned the bombings at WFP office.