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Surendra Phuyal in Kathmadu
Nepalese security forces shot dead an armed Maoist militant on Wednesday morning within the premises of Raj Parishad Standing Committee chairman Keshar Jung Rayamajhi.
Soldiers of the Royal Nepal Army killed the militant seconds after he had hurled a bomb that, however, did not explode, Tapedra Dhoj Hamal, chief of Kathmandu District Police, said. "There could have been more than one person involved in the attack."
Rayamajhi, in his seventies, was inside his bathroom at the time of the attack, family sources said.
Hamal added the security force were working in close coordination to hunt down the other rebels involved in the pre-dawn bomb attack, which is the latest in a series of explosions that has rocked Kathmandu and other Nepalese cities in recent days.
The attack came five days after Rayamajhi gave a public statement at a forum in Kathmandu supporting the October 4 royal takeover that saw King Gyanendra, the constitutional monarch, abruptly sacking a democratically elected government headed by Sher Bahadur Deuba.
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