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Kathmandu Friday February 16, 2001 Falgun 05, 2057.
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Police,
Maoists exchange fire in Chautara
CHAUTARA, Sindhupalchok, Feb 15 (PR) - Maoist
guerrillas attempted to capture the Bahrabise-based Area Police Station, situated on the
Araniko Highway, in a pipe bomb attack Wednesday night. Rebels and police exchanged fire
for about one and a half hours, police here said.
However, the rebels fled the scene soon after
the Jaletar-based Royal Nepal Army (RNA), about half a kilometre north of the police post,
threw a searchlight in a bid to protect the post from falling into rebel hands.
According to police, the rebels hurled the
four feet long pipe-bombs, made of an electric pole, from the east of the police post at
about 1.30 a.m.
Police opened 40 rounds of fire at the rebels
after one of the pipe-bombs went off. The bomb, which caused minor damage to the
communication room, was detonated about 200m away from the site. Another two unexploded
bombs were defused by the RNA. Eyewitness said that the rebels retreated early Thursday.
In the third week of January, rebels looted a
cargo truck on the highway, killing a customs inspector at Jambu, about 3km north of the
area police station. Ramche and Maneswora VDCs, located close to Bahrabise bazaar, are
believed to be the Maoist stronghold.
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