Fire in Maoist camp

CHITWAN: Property worth Rs 3 lakh was damaged when fire engulfed a wooden hut in the Maoist cantonment at Shaktikhor in Chitwan on Tuesday morning. The fire destroyed goods worth Rs 50,000, a computer, a video player and television, cabinet, wooden bed and gold jewellery worth Rs 20,000. — HNS

Teacher abducted

RAJBIRAJ: An unidentified gang abducted Narayan Pokhrel, a schoolteacher of Ashis Boarding School in Mahuli of Saptari on Tuesday. — HNS

Bail for Maoists

POKHARA: Two Maoist cadres who were held for their hand in beating up of a tourist at Lamdawali in Dangsingh two weeks ago were released on bail on Sunday. Kaski DAO released Maoist cadres Rajesh Lamsal and Bijay BK on bail Rs 3,000 each. — HNS

Woman ‘kills’ hubby

NARAYANGARH: Police held Sunita Tamang, 21, of Birendranagar-3 on Tuesday on the charge of killing her husband. DPO has alleged that Sunita killed her husband, Yam Bahadur Karki, 24, while he was sleeping. — HNS

Kids killed in mishap

JHAPA: Two schoolchildren were killed in Dhulabari-Charali road of Jhapa after a tractor hit them on Monday evening. Salman Dhimal, 8, and Bijaya Rajbansi, third graders of the Dasharath Chand Higher Secondary School and the residents of Dhaijan VDC-5, succumbed to injuries while being rushed to Dharan for treatment, police said. Police said tractor driver Bhantuk Danuwar was arrested. The aggressive locals blocked the highway to press for compensation. — HNS

Youth abducted

Rajbiraj: Cadres of the Janatantrik Tarai Mukti Morcha-Jwala Singh abducted 22-year-old Bihari Yadav, a resident of Barahibirpur village development committee in Saptari district on Tuesday. Yadad was kidnapped on the charge of collecting donations, robbery and for his involvement in criminal activities, JTMM-J district coordinator Kranti said. In another incident, an unidentified gang abducted Pawan Kumar Shah, a teacher at a primary school of Bargama of Saptari on Tuesday. A gang of some seven armed persons kidnapped Shah, a resident of Nagada VDC-4, and took him to unknown place, said eyewitnesses. — HNS

Road blocked

NEPALGUNJ: Locals of Kusum and relatives of Chandra KC, 13, who was hit by a passenger bus on Tuesday morning, blocked the Kohalpur-Lamahi road section of the East-West highway demanding punishment to the bus driver and the boy’s treatment, Kohalpur traffic police office said. Injured KC has been undergoing treatment at the Nepalgunj Teaching Hospital. The Agaiya police post has taken the bus driver in custody. — HNS