A socket bomb has been recovered at the residence of Nepali Congress (NC) mayor candidate from Galyang Municipality-11 in Syangja district.
The bomb was found at the house of NC mayoral candidate Lal Gopal Aryal on Friday morning, police said. Police suspected that the improvised explosive device didn’t go off because it got drenched in the rain. The explosive was found partly burnt in the morning.
Aryal and his family members were in the house.
After the recovery of bomb, a bomb disposal squad of Nepal Army led by Captain Jeevan Bista went to defuse the explosive device. The NA team exploded the device by digging a 3-meter pit. Bista said the bomb was powerful could have caused a huge loss had it exploded at Aryal’s residence.
स्याङ्जाको गल्याङ नगरपालिकामा नेपाली काँग्रेसका तर्फबाट प्रमुख पदका उम्मेदवारको घरमा शुक्रबार बिहानै बम फेला परेको छ ।
गल्याङ प्रहरी चौकीका प्रहरी निरीक्षक रामप्रसाद पाण्डेकाअनुसार शुक्रबार बिहान प्रमुख पदका उम्मेदवार लालगोपाल अर्यालको घरको बरन्डामा एउटा बम फेला परेको हो ।
प्लास्टिकले बेरिएको अवस्थामा बम देखेपछि घरपरिवारले प्रहरीलाई खबर गरेका थिए । बमलाई नेपाली सेनाको बम डिस्पोजल टोलीले केहीछिन अघि निष्क्रिय पारेको प्रहरी निरीक्षक पाण्डेले बताए ।
प्रमुख पदका उम्मेदारको घरमा बम फेला परेपछि स्थानीयवासी त्रसित भएका छन् भने प्रहरीले अनुसन्धान अगाडि बढाएको छ ।