Multiple Bomb Blasts in Kathmandu!!!!

[RAAZ]

Ktm, 2nd September '07:

Today at around 4:00 pm, Kathmandu Valley was thrilled with series of Bomb Blasts in the centres of the city. Till now, the updates include, Sundhara, Tripureswor, Balaju, Kalimati and Kirtipur. More than 25 people are seriously injured with two deaths. News even have said that a bomb blast occured in a public vehicle.



The injured are being treated at Bir Hospital and Siddhartha Hospital. Many of them are in a critical situation. Five students of a school also have been injured in the blast.



More updates will be posted when received.

Any updates on the news is welcomed in this thread.

Photos taken from ekantipur

[RAAZ]

KATHMANDU, Sept 2 - A series of bomb explosions rocked Kathmandu at around 4:15 pm Sunday.
The bombs went off almost simultaneously at busy market places at Tripureshwor, Sundhara and Balaju.

An unidentified group detonated “time bombs” concealed in bags, the police said. However, nobody has been arrested so far.

Home Ministry spokesman, Baman Prasad Neupane confirmed that two people have died and five others are critically injured.

Two people died when a bomb went off at a bus stop in front of the United World Trade Center in Tripureshwor.

One of the dead has been identified as Anita KC, a class 12 student at Vishwaniketan Higher Secondary School. Another dead woman is yet to be identified.

“The explosion ripped apart one person while around 7 to 8 persons were injured,” said Ram Pariyar, a bus driver who was an eyewitness to Tripureshwor explosion. The injured include six school children, police said.

Two passenger buses were also partially damaged in the explosion.

Two more are feared dead at an explosion in a microbus in front of a police post in Balaju.

At least 14 are injured in Balaju. Four are in a critical condition, according to eyewitnesses.



A girl was critically injured when a bomb went off at Tudikhel-Sundhara area. A few others are injured.

Of the injured 15 are admitted to the emergency ward and trauma center at the Bir Hospital and nine have been rushed to the Siddhartha Hospital in Balaju.

Those undergoing treatment at the Bir Hospital include Vishwaniketan students Sabi Shah, Rakshya Khadka (class 12), Shanik Shah and Prakash Gurung (class six), Sandhya Khadka, Sita Acharya, Gyanendra Waiba, Sukapaa Thapa, Jatan Mani, Chandra Prakash Gurung, Bhagwati Bhandari, Rudra Dhungel, Surendra Shahi, Basanta Chaudhary and Mitthu BK.

No one has taken the responsibility for the explosions so far.

Kathmandu Valley Police Chief SP Sarvendra Khanal said that they were still investigating the case.

ekantipur

[RAAZ]

Kantipur Report


KATHMANDU, Sept 2 - A little known group called the Terai Army has claimed responsibility for the Kathmandu blasts.
One Mr Khanna, who identified himself as the leader of the group based in Rautahat district, called a television channel in Kathmandu and claimed the responsibility over the phone.

The claim is yet to be verified independently.

The group was behind a few bomb blasts in Rautahat a few months back.

In mid-May, at least 14 people were injured, one of them critically, when the group had detonated a bomb at a busy local market in Chandranigahapur in Rautahat district.

Most of the injured were shoppers buying essential commodities at the market

[Khushboo]

What a horrible day!!!

I can't understand one thing that what anyone is going to get by killing the innnocent people???

If anyone is having problem with the government or they have to do something with the dirty politics, why do they sacrifice the life of the innocent people who haven't done anything to them? Those person must be ashamed of themselves for doing such a shameful work......

I feel quite sorry for the people who have lost their life & for those who have injured. May GOD give them strength to fight with this situation & those people who are responsible for this should be sentencd to death.......

[Pal]

May God give strength to the affected family.

[Walrus]

Scares us now, doesn't it?

May be people outside KTM have been living in this fright for more than a decade now not knowing what will happen that day and still they are living in. Kathmanduites get the scare only after they see it happening right outside their door.

Who is to be blamed?

Government - am sure they didnt plant to bomb there. And are we not the one who is responsible for making the government? Why blame the government now? We make the government, it does not come into existence by itself in democratic country. And if you think politicians who are in the government right now are bunch of idiots and are responsible for all this, then come forward and make the government yourself. Have U ever even thought of doing that? There is plenty of space for you. If you cannot, then why do U have the rights to blame those who are there?
Doctors are supposed to be the most intelligent people in the society and if we also just resort to be blaming each other then there is no good tomorrow.
I too feel sorry for the affected family which is not just those 3 killed and dozens injured but 27 million Nepalese.
Yes, khusboo, 'those people should be ashamed' but we should also be ashamed. At least, I feel ashamed for not being able to do anything for last one decade of mess we are living in.
Easiest way and so much persuaded is hibernate for sometime, write USMLE and get the hell out of this country. To hell with this country and people.. . . USMLE is better. Isn't that our feeling?
I am sure, there will be many reading these news from outside Nepal and saying 'k bhayeko hola Nepal lai' - thats such a big irony that I don't even to laugh on that.

[Walrus]

By the way, docs are on protest these days. They were to be wearing 'black bands' but I see none in the pictures. Is the protest over?

[antibody]

this day 2nd sept 2007 is a black day for nepal n its people .....yesterday when i read abt this i feel very shocky n terrified n looked for the list of dead and injured people ...hope not to see my relatives n frens in that list .....there were nobody whom i know ...but there was a girl named anisha kc whom their parents n fren knows n she is no more ...i pray to god to give strength to anisha mom n dad coz they r the one who wll miss her whole life ..other wll forget her in a wk or so .....so i want to ask a question do the people who have planted the bomb have children or not or any relatives or fren .........why they r not afraid that what they have done can happened to them also .......
anyway i feel sorry for myself that seeing all this i cant do anything except praying to god for "keep the voilence away from innocent people "
thanx

[SUMAN-SAJAN]

really a horrible day
and
its a terrorist act

bomb blast, that too in the public vehicles can,t be attributed other words than terrorism .
The investigation is going on ,
no one has claimed the blast ...........................but ...............

im scared whats going in this country , no peace, no opportunities , that is why many young are flying to foreign countries for education and employment .


lets hope
there will be no more blasts, no bandhs and no violence

Praying to god : Please help us live peaceful life.


PEACE FOR ALL............................................... ...................

[RAAZ]

The mangled microbus at Balaju after a killer explosion in Balaju, Sunday. Three blasts in Kathmandu Sunday killed at least two persons and injured dozens.

ekantipur