Explosions at Nepal Telecom and other offices

There have been powerful explosions at the offices of the state-owned Nepal Telecom Company (NTC), District Survey Office and District Forest Office in the eastern terai town of Inaruwa Wednesday, reports said.

The damaged building of Nepal Telecom in Inaruwa after explosions (Photo courtesy: Bedraj/Kantipur daily)

Kantipur daily reported that two people arrived on a bicycle, took a guard and another staff under control and exploded ‘pressure cooker bomb’ at the Switching room of the NTC. The daily quoted Badri Narayan Chaudhary, chief of the NTC in Inaruwa, as saying that the explosion caused damage worth estimated Rs 10 million.

The state-run Gorkhapatra daily, however, quoted Chaudhary as saying that the explosions caused a loss of over Rs 500 million rupees.

According to reports, the explosions have disrupted telephone connections in the district. The telecom had provided 1,200 line telephone services to local people and used to earn revenue worth Rs 1.7 million every month.

Explosions were also caused at the District Survey Office and District Forest Office in Inaruwa, district headquarters of Sunsari district, the same morning. The explosions have damaged two buildings of the District Survey Office and government records including maps and field books.

The explosions at the District Forest Office and District Survey Office have caused damage worth Rs five million, according to preliminary estimates. Nobody was injured in these explosions.

Nobody has claimed responsibility for the explosions. But police suspect insurgents to be responsible behind them, reports said. nepalnews.com by Mar 17 05

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