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Six Maoists killed in western Nepal clash KATHMANDU, Aug 20 (AFP) - Six Maoist rebels were killed and a government soldier wounded during a clash in western Nepal, a security force official said Friday. "The Maoists suddenly attacked a security patrol team at Pipaldanda village in Dailekh district and when the security personnel retaliated, six terrorists were killed while a soldier was injured," the official said. Dailekh district is about 490 kilometres (360 miles) west of Kathmandu. "The security personnel recovered six bodies of the Maoists from the clash site," he said. The wounded soldier was flown to the capital Kathmandu for treatment. "Some firearms and communist literature were recovered from the clash site," he said. In a separate incident, suspected Maoists set off a homemade bomb outside the home of retired chief of army staff Satchit Shumshere Rana, a close confidant of King Gyanendra, in Kathmandu late Thursday, a police official said. |
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