Posted on 10/23/2003 7:39:21 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Thirteen persons, including two policemen were killed, a minister's house and a Hydropower project attacked in heightened Maoist violence in Nepal.
According to the police, the rebels killed three civilians in Kapilvastu district, three in Banke district, one each in Parsa and Bardia districts and a policeman in Nawalparasi district.
"A group of Maoist rebels travelling on bicycles forced all the family members out of the house and blasted the minister's house using cooker bomb", police said.
In Rupendahi district, Maoists bombed and destroyed the ancestral house of Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation Sarvendranath Shukla.
Despite a Maoist announcement that they will not target country's infrastructure, The rebels also destroyed the 200 kw capacity small hydro power plant in Martadi area of Bajura district on Tuesday, police said.
Three members of a family were shot dead by the rebels during a clash with local villagers in Malawa village in Kapilvastu district yesterday.
In Bardia district, the rebels killed a worker of Rastriya Prajatantra Party after abducting him.
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