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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Woman killed by landmine near NA premises

ROLPA, June 24 - A woman was killed in an explosion in the landmine area surrounding the premises of the Nepal Army's Gorakh Battalion at Khumel VDC ward-5 in Rolpa district Tuesday morning.

Bhunti Gharti Magar of ward-5 had gone inside the mine area to cut grass when the fatal incident occurred at 8:45 am, police said. Police inspector Pawan Kumar Bhattarai said that the body was blasted away below the knees. She died on the spot.

The incident site is about an hour's walk from district headquarters Liwang.

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