The army shot dead two Maoists, including a woman, in Jhapa and Dhangadi Monday, the Defence Ministry said Tuesday. The army shot dead Chabilal Acharya alias Andu, secretary of the district committee of Mainachuli in Jhapa, the Ministry said.
A woman was killed and two others were injured in a shoot-out at a rebel shelter in Dhangadi the same day. An unspecified number of members of the so-called people’s government defected and surrendered to the local administration in Nuwakot Sunday, the Ministry said.