General, 3 Soldiers Killed in Rebel Ambush
A Nepalese brigadier general and three soldiers were killed when Maoist rebels ambushed an army patrol, an army spokesman said.
Brig. Gen. Sagar Bahadur Pandey was the most senior army officer to be killed since the rebels launched their armed revolt in 1996. The incident took place near Hetauda, 30 miles south of the capital, Katmandu.
The rebels, who are fighting to replace the constitutional monarchy with a communist republic, abandoned peace talks in August. They recently started raiding military and government installations in the Terai region, the main commercial and industrial hub of the Himalayan kingdom.
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