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Nepalese army kills 37 Maoists

Kathmandu, December 2
Firing rockets from helicopters, the Nepalese army today took the battle to the Maoists’ nerve-centre Rolpa killing 37 rebels and destroyed their training camps and seized a huge quantity of weapons and explosives in continued search operations.

Reliable sources said at least four senior Maoist leaders including K.B. Mahara, Ram Bahadur Thapa and Poshta Bahadur Bogati, were killed in encounters in Dang and Rolpa. However, there is no official confirmation of this.

The army and police forces have destroyed some training camps and hideouts in Rolpa, according to defence sources. In the operation in Rolpa, at least 37 Maoists were killed, the sources said.

Security personnel have surrounded the guerrilla camps in Rolpa, Rukum and Salyan, the Maoist strongholds narrowing the attacks on specific rebel targets.

The Nepalese army fired rockets from helicopters at a large number of armed militants in a forest near Doramba village of Ramechhap district, east of Kathmandu, killing several rebels, Defence Ministry spokesman Bhola Silwal said, adding the exact number of causualities was not known. PTI