Landmine blast kills 21 Nepalese policemen

[dArKeR]

Kathmandu, Nepal

A landmine planted by suspected Maoist rebels in Nepal killed 21 policemen and injured 16 others on Monday as a top guerrilla rejected calls by the prime minister to reopen peace talks.

The policemen were on a search mission for Maoist hideouts in the insurgency-torn southwestern Nepalgunj district when their truck was blown up by underground explosives, police said.

"The police opened fire after the blast but it is not known if any Maoists were killed. The Maoists disappeared after the attack," senior police official Ravi Raj Thapa said.

He added that 13 of the injured policemen were airlifted to a hospital in the capital Kathmandu, 440 kilometres away, where several were in serious condition. Three others were treated locally.

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=67842

World terra down?

[bhunt70]

1. They probably don't count that

because it involves maoists as opposed to a muslim group.