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More killings in Nepal

Satbariya, Nepal, April 13. At least 160 police and Maoist rebels were killed in a single night of fighting, the worst carnage in the six-year-old insurgency to bring communism to this Himalayan kingdom, police said today.

The dramatic jump in the toll — the Government had reported 54 deaths on Friday — was revealed by local officials to journalists on Thursday night and early yesterday. The Police Inspector, Padam Vohra, told the Associated Press that 60 policemen were killed on Thursday night while defending the house of the Interior Security Minister, Khum Bahadur Khadka, from a rebel attack on Thursday night. Another 27 policemen who surrendered were beheaded and two were burnmed alive, he said. He said 11 policemen were killed in an attack on a police station in the nearby town of Lamahi.

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