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| Nepal Necropsies Numerated |
| 2005-04-20 |
| KATHMANDU - Maoists shot dead a top police official while he was on duty at Janakpur in Nepal's southeastern Dhanusha district, the third high-level officer to be gunned down since King Gyanendra's power grab, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place Monday night, a police spokesman said, naming the official as Bishnu Pokhrel, deputy superintendent of police in Janakpur, about 378 kilometres (236 miles) southeast of Kathmandu. In February, deputy superintendent Bikram Bahadur Chand was shot dead in Butwal, west of here, while on March 31, deputy superintendent Mahesh Khatri Chhetri, 48, was killed by rebels in the tourist resort of Pokhara, 225 kilometres (140 miles) west of the capital Kathmandu. |
| Posted by:Steve White |