Thirty-eight members of Nepal's armed police force are missing and are feared to have been killed in an ambush laid by Maoist guerrillas, officials said.
A home ministry spokesman on Sunday said that a party of 44 men were attacked while travelling by bus on Saturday evening to the construction site of a regional police office at Kalidamar in Surkhet district. Of them, four are known to have died and two are injured. But the whereabouts of the other 38 are still not known, He said. We have sent reinforcement teams to search for the missing policemen. A search operation had been launched Saturday to locate the missing policemen but the team returned empty handed.
The missing men were armed with self-loading rifles . At least 40 policemen, soldiers and civilians have been confirmed killed since Saturday when Maoist rebels ended a four-month ceasefire with a series of attacks across Nepal
Bureau Report