At least six people, including two children, were killed in a blast at a house in southwestern Nepal, a report said on Friday.
The explosion ripped through a private home at Bataulpur village, which killed six people on the spot that included two children aged five and six, ‘The Kathmandu Post’ newspaper reported, quoting local officials in the southwestern Dang district.
It was not clear what caused the blast, but the newspaper, quoting local sources, said the house was thought to be a hideout of Maoist rebels. Local and government officials said they could not immediately comment on the report because of an ongoing state of emergency in the country, imposed on November 26 after the rebels broke a four-month ceasefire with several attacks that claimed scores of lives.
The leftist guerrillas launched their People's war in 1996, aimed at forming a Nepalese republic. The insurgency has so far claimed the lives of more than 2,100 people. An investigation into the explosion Bureau Report