KATHMANDU (AFP) - Suspected Maoists killed four security force members in two incidents in remote areas of Nepal and bombed a forestry office on the outskirts of Kathmandu, police said.
Two security force members were shot dead by the communists on Wednesday after they had been kidnapped a day earlier while on patrol near Phulkali village in southeastern Saptari district, a police spokesman said on Thursday.
In another incident, two security workers were killed on Wednesday evening in the far-western district of Dadeldhura when they detonated a landmine planted by the communist maoists, he said.
The forestry office bombing caused extensive damage but no casualties, the spokesman added.
"Three suspected communists entered the compound of the Lalitpur Forestry District Office at Khumaltar (southern Kathmandu), overpowered four securitymen guarding the building and set off a pressure-cooker bomb," he said.
"The Maoist fled the scene after exploding the bomb," the spokesman added.
The communists have been fighting for a communist republic in Nepal since 1996 and the insurgency has claimed more than 10,000 lives.
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