Maoist Rebels Ambush Army Patrol; 10 Killed
From Times Wire Reports
Ten Nepalese soldiers were killed and six injured when Maoist rebels ambushed an army patrol, a defense official said.
The rebels, who want to replace the nation’s constitutional monarchy with a communist republic, recently started raiding military and government installations in Terai -- the main commercial and industrial region of the Himalayan kingdom.
The official said a bomb exploded under a vehicle carrying 18 soldiers in Jitpur, southwest of the capital, Katmandu.
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