Kathmandu, Oct 19: Maoist rebels in Nepal have killed another three people including a 75-year-old man and bombed the ancestral home of an ex-Army chief and a factory building, police said today. One of the victims was police head constable Rabindra Rana of Tribhuvannagar town in mid-western Nepal who was gunned down while riding his bicycle yesterday, police said.
"The rebels, who were waiting in ambush for the head constable near a local hotel, shot him and ran away after the attack," a police official said, adding that a number of arrests had been made.
In another incident, armed rebels slit the throat of 75-year-old Lalit Bahadur Basnet of Tingla village in Solukhuimbu district, 390 kilometres (244 miles) northeast of Kathmandu, the official said.

Another man, Chhatra Bahadur Tamand, was killed in the same way in Khandbari town, Sankhuwasabha district northeast of Kathmandu, he added.

The rebels, the official said, had bombed the ancestral home of former Army Chief of Staff Pyar Jung Thapa at Mukundapur village in Nawal Parasi district, 416 kilometres southwest of Kathmandu yesterday.

Bureau Report