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Kathmandu Sunday December 16, 2001 Paush 01, 2058.
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US embassy security staff shot
dead
By Kedar Ojha
KATHMANDU, Dec 15 – Unknown assailants on
Saturday killed a security official with the US embassy in Kathmandu while he was on
inspection of security personnel guarding the US organisations in the capital.
Police suspect that Maoists are behind the
murder of 28-year old Ramesh Manandhar, that took place at Rabibhavan 12.30 p.m. Manandhar
had gone to Rabibhavan, along with two lady colleagues, to inspect security arrangements
at the nearby Lincoln school and the USAID office.
According to one of the two eye witnesses,
Manandhar was shot thrice by two persons as soon as he parted with his colleagues after
having tea. "Two young men came and called him. Then one of them pinned him against
the nearby wall and the other fired three shots. They also took away Manandhar’s ID
card issued by the US embassy."
The witness also informed that the youth claimed
to be Maoists and warned the people nearby not to pursue them.
The police that arrived from the Kalimati police
station immediately took Manandhar to Bir Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. He
had joined embassy security wing only two months ago. He used to drive own taxi before.
An official revealed that the used cartridges
showed that they were of the bullets of the Chinese revolver looted earlier from the
police by the Maoists.
What has surprised even the Americans is that
some security guards at the Lincoln school refused to provide vehicle to Manandhar’s
lady colleagues. It was learnt that the embassy officials were to investigate why the
vehicle was not provided by which Manandhar could have been reached the hospital a little
earlier and might have been saved.
Although a search operation was launched by the
police, no one has been arrested until late evening.
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