Maoists meet attacked

Kathmandu, Apr 30 (UNI) Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) attacked on a peaceful Maoists mass meeting in Nawalparasi district yesterday, media reports said today.

''An RNA chopper rained bullets on the mass meet organised in the jungle adjoining a human settlement,'' Kantipur said in its online edition.

It said around 10,000 civilians were gathered for the programme which also saw the presence of armed Maoists.

A Maoist cadre sustained shrapnel injury on his nose.

Three houses of the local people were also damaged in the attack, the media reports said.

This has come at a time when the maoists have declared a three month long unilateral cease-fire after the reinstatement of the House last week.

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