Incident Reports

Explosive device found in Pokhara

2019-04-20

Gandaki, Kaski, Pokhara Lekhnath, Ward 9

An explosive device was found near Manav Adhikar Chok in Pokhara Metropolitan City-9 of Kaski district, Saturday morning.

A technical team of the Nepal Army defused the device, which was discovered on a road some 50 metres south of the Chok. The explosive was found wrapped inside a paper packet.

Locals had informed the police after they found a suspicious packet on the roadside at 7:00 in the morning, following which personnel from Nepal Police and Nepal Army cordoned off the area for protection. The device was defused one and a half hours later at 8:30 am.

Two days ago, on the day Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav)-led Communist Party of Nepal had called a nation-wide bandh, an explosive device had been discovered and defused in an area closeby. An army personnel had sustanined injuries while defusing the device.


Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Onesided
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Symbolic violence
Weapons Improvised explosive device (IED)
Primary Cause Other political issues
Actor 1 - Number of people N
Actor 1 - Affiliations CPN (Chand) and affiliated org
Actor 1 - Youth na
Actor 2 - Number of people N
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Group of civilians (only Target)
Actor 2 - Youth na
National/Online Media

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