New Delhi: As many as 103 prisoners escaped while five people were killed when the Maoists attacked a district jail in eastern Nepal on Sunday.
A soldier, a policeman and a civilian were killed in the fighting that erupted after the Maoists attacked a number of government buildings, including the district administrative office, prison and an army barrack, Army headquarter sources said.
A dozen security personnel were also injured in the fighting which continued late into the night, they said adding two bodies of Maoists were recovered during a search operation launched by the security forces after the attack.
After the Maoists attack in the District Prison, 103 prisoners have escaped. The prisoners have gone missing after the fighting, an Army official said.
In another incident, the rebels bombed a government building at Rupendehi, a busy commercial centre, on Sunday.
There were no reports of casualties as the five men, who were in the building, were allowed to escape by the rebels’ minutes before they detonated the bombs. The building has been completely razed to ground.
Meanwhile, the Maoists have apologised for the recent bomb attack on the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) sub-office premises in eastern Nepal, saying the incident was a 'mistake'.
"We want to apologise for the blast," Maoist local leader Rajendra said in a statement, adding that the bombing occurred as a mistake when the rebels were targeting a nearby government office.
He also reiterated the rebels’ policy of 'not targeting any UN-run office'.
Maoists had detonated two socket bombs at the WFP sub-office at Damak in Jhapa district, but there were no causalities or serious damage to the building on Thursday.
The United Nations' Nepal office had issued a statement strongly condemning the bombing and temporarily shut down the office after the incident.
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