Operation on against terrorists
Equipment, arms and accessories recovered

BY A STAFF REPORTER

Kathmandu, Dec. 3: The Royal Nepalese Army have been defeating, one after the other, all attacks made on security personnel and administrative units following the intensified military campaign against the Maoist terrorists.

A press release of the Defense Ministry said today, security personnel on Sunday effectively rendered unsuccessful the Maoists attacks at Sindhupalchowk district headquarters Chautara, a police post at Bhimphedi in Makawanpur and Sindhuli district headquarters.

Similarly, a peon of the District Development Committee of Sankhuwasabha district is undergoing an investigation after an army search team found a pistol with him.

Locals at Jupu village of Accham district this morning took under control one of the Maoists after the terrorists physically attacked Ward Chairman Rana Bahadur Bhandari and his family.

Following the incident, security personnel had reached the spot to give a sense of security to the villagers.

The Ministry said, even foreign tourists have also expressed aversion towards the cruel and barbarous acts of the Maoists. A tourist at Phaplu airport said he saw with his own eyes the Maoists chopping off the heads of their dead comrades – who were badly defeated during their attacks against the army -- and carrying them away. "This heinous deed was something I did not even witnessed during the World War II," the Ministry quoted the tourist as saying.

In today’s separate search operations at Phirmile in the bordering area of Jhapa and Ilam districts in eastern Nepal, security personnel arrested five terrorists and confiscated arms from them.

Likewise, in their action at Nuwagoan of Rolpa district today, security personnel recovered communication equipment, arms and accessories, ammunitions and explosives the terrorists had looted from the Dang army barrack last Friday. The army also recovered two official jeeps belonging to the District Development Committee the terrorists had taken away.

Over 650 Maoist terrorists in eight different districts surrendered before the administration in the last two days, according to the Home Ministry.

In Nuwakot district, 300 persons associated with the terrorist groups surrendered today before the district administration.

In Okhaldhunga, 157 have surrendered in the last two days. Similarly, 68 in Ramechhap, 44 in Rasuwa, another 44 in Sankhuwasabha, five in Gorkha, 4 in Syangja and 42 in Baglung have also given themselves up today before the districts’ administration.

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