KATHMANDU, Jan 23: A pressure cooker bomb planted by the outlawed CPN (Maoist) led by Netra Bikram Chand "Biplab' in Banepa Bazar in Kavrepalanchwok district has been defused on Saturday.
Bomb targeting PM diffused
According to police, a bomb disposal team of the Nepal Army defused the bomb planted on the highway in the Budol area of Araniko Highway. Police had stopped the movement of all vehicles since 3 am to search bombs planted by the outlawed group after receiving a tip-off that the group had planted bombs in several locations to make the nationwide general strike they called for Saturday a success.
Police said vehicular movement along Araniko Highway has already resumed. The Biplab-led group called the general strike what it said against the arrest of its central secretariat member Kanchan a few weeks ago. The group had detonated a bomb in the Bethankchowk area in Kavrepalanchowk on Friday evening.
