Nepal police post attacked, one officer killed

[Coventina]

Source: Reuters

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Police scoured forested hills and remote gorges in west Nepal on Sunday in search of militants who attacked a police post at the weekend, killing one officer, a government spokesman said.

On Saturday, dozens of heavily armed men stormed the Syaulibang police post, about 240 km west of Kathmandu, and looted weapons including five rifles and a pistol, in the biggest attack on police since Maoist rebels ended a civil war in 2006.

The area is close to Rolpa in west Nepal from where the Maoist insurgency began in early 1996.

"We have mobilised police from all directions who have ringed the area and are looking for the attackers," Home (Interior) Ministry spokesman Navin Ghimire told Reuters.



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