Maoists bomb school

DAMAK: Property worth Rs 200,000 was damaged when a group of Maoists detonated a pressure cooker bomb on the premises of Suryodaya Boarding School, Damak-10, Jhapa on Friday. According to Bini Fred, principal of the school, the explosion damaged main office and two rooms of the school. — HNS

Wild mushroom kills 1

TANSEN: A woman who had fallen sick on Thursday after consuming poisonous wild mushroom died while undergoing treatment at Palpa Mission Hospital on Friday. Nanisara Gaha of Tansen municipality-10, Khalluk Dhara, died on Friday morning. She was one among the 19 people who had fallen sick due to mushroom poisoning. — HNS

Free abductee: UML

KATHMANDU: The Central Office of the CPN-UML, issuing a press release on Friday, urged the Maoists to release Man Bahadur Shrestha, a CPN-UML Terhathum district committee member. Maoists had abducted him from his house on Thursday. — HNS

Tiger kills man

CHITWAN: Kamal Darai (32) of Kathar-9 was reportedly killed by a tiger in the Royal Chitwan National Park where he had been collecting fodder, security sources said. — RSS