AFP. 21 January 2002. Maoists attack government vehicles in Nepal's capital.
KATHMANDU -- Maoist insurgents Monday attacked four government vehicles in Nepal's capital Kathmandu, where several rebel sympathizers were arrested, officials said. The Maoists doused three vehicles belonging to the semi-governmental Nepal Electricity Authority with gasoline and set them on fire, and set off a petroleum bomb in a car of the parliamentary secretariat, police said. No one was injured in the Maoist attacks, which are rare in the capital. A home ministry spokesman said the vehicles belonging to the electricity authority were used for the 74.5 million-dollar Chameli hydropower project in northwest Nepal which South Korea is considering helping finance. Meanwhile three Maoist sympathizers, including the chairman of a pro-rebel trade union, were arrested Sunday evening in Lalitpur township on Kathmandu's outskirts after they took part in a demonstration, police said. Witnesses said about a dozen people had shouted Maoist slogans and held up torches when power was cut off Sunday. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews
