Incident Reports

Pressure cooker bomb goes off at Maoist Centre's election contact office in Siraha

2017-11-24

Madhes, Siraha, Mirchaiya

A pressure cooker bomb went off at an election contact office of CPN (Maoist Centre) located in Mirchaiya-5 of Siraha district on Friday. Police said the explosive-laden pressure cooker exploded at around 3:45pm at the building where Maoist Centre had opened an office for election campaigns. No damage has been reported in the explosion. The office belonged to left alliance candidate Ajay Shankar Nayak who is contesting in elections from Siraha, constituency 4. Nayak is a former law minister. A 1.5 litre pressure cooker was used for the explosion. The incident site lies some 200 metres west of Mirchaiya Police Office. Police reached the site after hearing loud explosion. Pamphlets belonging to Jaya Krishna Goit-led Akhil Tarai Mukti Morcha were recovered from the incident site, police said. DSP Gajursiddhi Bajracharya said that police are investigating the matter. एमाले–माओवादीको संयुक्त चुनावी सभामा बम बिस्फोट भएको छ । एमाले-माओवादीको वाम गठबन्धनका उम्मेदवार एवम् पूर्वमन्त्री अजय शंकर नायकको प्रचारप्रसारका लागि गरिएको सभामा कुकर बम बिस्फोट भएको हो । सिरहाको मिर्चैयास्थित नायकको चुनाव प्रचारप्रसार गर्ने स्थानमा बम बिस्फोट भए पनि मानवीय क्षती भने भएको छैन् । बिस्फोटको जिम्मेवारी अखिल तराई मुक्ति मोर्चाले लिएको छ । जयकृष्ण गोइत नेतृत्वको मोर्चाले निर्वाचनको विरोधमा बम विस्फोट गराएको जनाएको छ । उक्त स्थानबाट गोइतको पर्चासमेत फेला परेको छ । मधेशको विरुद्ध निर्वाचन भइरहेको उल्लेख गर्दै गोइतद्धारा हस्ताक्षरित विज्ञप्तिमा भनिएको छ, ‘यही २१ मंसीर २०७४ को स्वतन्त्र तराईमा प्रहरी, सशस्त्र प्रहरी र सेनाको बन्दूकको बलमा अवैध नेपाली शासकले प्रतिनिधिसभा र प्रान्तीय सभाको निर्वाचन गराएर नेपाली शासनलाई निरन्तरता दिन खोजेको हो । यस्तो स्थितिमा नेपाली निर्वाचनमा सहभागीहरुको सशस्त्र प्रतिरोध गर्नु बाहेक हम्रो निम्ति अर्को विकल्प छैन ।’
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Onesided
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Remote violence
Weapons Improvised explosive device (IED)
Primary Cause Election-related incident
Actor 1 - Number of people NA
Actor 1 - Affiliations Tarai-based Armed Groups
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people NA
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) CPN (Maoist Center) and affiliated org
Actor 2 - Youth na
National/Online Media , INSEC

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