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Powerful bomb defused in the Nepalese capital KATHMANDU, Saturday (AFP) Security forces in Nepal disarmed a powerful time bomb that had been planted by suspected Maoist rebels near a health clinic in the heart of the capital Kathmandu Friday, the military said. "The Royal Nepalese Army bomb disposal squad successfully defused the bomb," an army official told AFP. "Had the bomb disposal squad not diffused the time bomb in time, many civilians could have been killed," he added, saying that Maoists rebels were suspected of planting the device. The rebels' nine-year struggle to overthrow the monarchy and install a communist republic in Nepal has claimed more than 11,000 lives, with both the guerrillas and the government forces accused of atrocities in the conflict. |
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