The device went off at 8.30 p.m. which burnt the papers and furniture at the office, according to eyewitnesses. The District Police Office lies some 300 metres to the north-east of the party office. Similarly, there is round-the-clock police watch at the Hemnarayan Chowk, 150 metres north of it. [break]
Eastern Militia Commander of the Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha, Jaya Mukti, phoned media persons and owned up the incident.
The bomb has been detonated at the Nepali Congress party office since the hill-dominated regime including some Madhes-centric parties were exploiting the Madhes and the Madhesi people by entrenching their presence in the Madhes, Mukti said on the phone about the reason behind the attack.
Superintendent of Police Purna Chandra Joshi, who assumed his office two days back, however, claimed that there was no bomb explosion at the NC Siraha office and it was merely rumour.
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