Incident Reports

IED goes off in two election centres of Nawalparasi, 6 injured

2017-12-07

Gandaki, Nawalparasi West, Devchuli, Ward 12

Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) went off in two separate polling centres of Nawalparasi district on Thursday. The explosion occurred while the voters were in queue to cast their ballots. One of the explosions took place in Divyajyoti Adharbhut School in Devchuli Municipality-12 at around 10:30 am. One person was injured in the blast. The victim has been identified as Indra Bahadur Nepali. It is learnt that he is out of danger. The voting was halted for an hour following the blast which was subsequently resumed. There are 1,977 voters registered at the voting centre. Police suspect the miscreants could have planted the bomb in the school premises few days ago before the elections. The area is a stronghold of Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal. Chief District Officer Sambhu Marasini along with the chief of security agencies had reached the incident site to take stock of the situation. Voters who had fled the election centre following the blast have returned and the voting has resumed, it is learnt. नवलपरासीको देवचुली नगरपालिका १२ स्थित दिव्य ज्योती आधारभुत विद्ययालय गैडीमा बम बिस्फोट भएको छ । मतदान केन्द्रबाट ५० मिटरको दुरीमा मतदान संचालन भईरहेको बिद्ययालयको कम्पाउण्ड भित्र बिष्फोट भएको जिल्ला प्रहरी कार्यालय नवलपुरका प्रहरी उपरिक्षक दिपेन्द्र जिसीले बनाउनु भयो । बिस्फोट पछि मतदान करिब आधा घण्टा रोकिएकोमा अहिले मतदान प्रक्रिया सुचारु गर्न लागिएको समेत उहाले बताउनु भएको छ । बिस्फोटबाट मानविय क्षति भने नभएको समेत प्रहरी उपरिक्षक जिसीले बताउनु भयो ।
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Onesided
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Remote violence
Weapons Improvised explosive device (IED) , Improvised explosive device (IED)
Primary Cause Election-related incident
Actor 1 - Number of people NA
Actor 1 - Affiliations Unclear , Unclear
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people NA
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Group of civilians (only Target)
Actor 2 - Youth na
Total Injured 1
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