Police found Bhandari´s body from room number 304 of Swastika Hotel in Sundhara. [break]
Hom Bahadur Basnet, who had been staying with Bhandari, has been arrested for investigation into the incident. Bhandari was the brother of NC Central Committee member Chandra Bhandari.
Meanwhile, people in his home district Gulmi are grief-stricken. Bhandari´s body was covered in bruises and blood. Bhandari from Hunga-7 of Gulmi had been actively involved in politics since 2034 B.S. He served jail several times for his involvement in party´s movement against Panchayat and former King Gyanendra´s autocratic regime.
Bhandari is survived by a daughter, son and wife. The district party office has also decided to cancel all the scheduled programs and lower the party´s flag at half-mast for thirteen days.
Bomb in girls´ hostel
LAHAN: A day after a bomb was planted in a private school in Birgunj, another bomb has been found in an under-construction girls´ hostel in Rajbiraj, Saptari.
A socket bomb was found on Friday at the entrance of the hostel of Mahendra Bindheshwari Multiple Campus in Rajbiraj-7. Although no one has claimed the responsibility for planting the bomb, pamphlets of Jaya Krishna Goit-led Akhil Tarai Mukti Morcha were found at the hostel gate.
A bomb disposal team of Nepal Army defused the bomb.
Garlic looted
CHITWAN: In a bizarre case of robbery, police have arrested four persons on the charge of looting a sack of garlic from a bus.
Police arrested Narayan Thapa and Chankhe Magar, residents of Chhatiwan-4 in Makwanpur, and Ananda Thapa and Ramesh Thapa, residents of Chainpur-4 in Chitwan, on Friday morning. Police said they were caught when they were dragging away a sack of garlic out of a bus (Na 4 Kha 4693). They tried to steal the sack of garlic when the bus, which was heading toward Birgunj from Kathmandu, was stopped for refueling.
The price of garlic has been soaring in local markets. While the wholesale price of Chinese garlic is around Rs 170, the price of local garlic is even higher.
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