At least three people were killed and seven wounded in an explosion near government offices in Kathmandu on Monday, police said, in the first bomb attack in the Nepali capital for three years. The device, which went off at 1:25pm (0740 GMT) in a busy area where workers were heading out of offices on their lunch breaks, killed two people instantly while a third died in hospital, officials and police said.
A little-known organisation calling itself the Unified Ethnic Liberation Front claimed responsibility, Home Minister Bijay Kumar Gachchadar said, although their agenda remains unclear. "We will take action against the group. This is a political group which the police are investigating," he told.