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40 policemen killed

Kathmandu Sept. 8. Forty policemen were killed and 19 injured when about 1,000 Maoists attacked a police post in eastern Nepal in their first major strike since the emergency was lifted on August 28 in the Himalyan Kingdom.

Eleven policemen were missing after the midnight attack on the Ilaka police post of Bhimad in Sindhuli district, the Minister of State for Home, Devender Raj Kandel, said before leaving for the site of the attack. About 100 rebels attacked the post manned by 70 policemen. — PTI

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