By IANS
Kathmandu : A month after serial blasts killed three woman here, three bombs were found hidden in a factory in the Nepalese capital at a time the country is celebrating its biggest Hindu festival.
The three bombs were found hidden in a carton in a factory in Koteshwor, a busy commercial area in Kathmandu, the police said.
The bomb disposal squad defused two and took away the third for investigations, Nepal’s state media said.
The bombs were discovered on the day Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula was questioned by a committee of MPs over the deteriorating law and order situation in the country.
The police are yet to find the masterminds behind the Kathmandu serial blasts. Of the four people arrested on suspicion they helped the perpetrators, one is a policeman.
The government has been under fire since Maoist cadres abducted a journalist nearly two weeks ago from Bara district in south Nepal.
Speaker Subhash Chandra Nembang urged the government to find out the whereabouts of Birendra Shah, who worked for a television station.
While journalists’ organisations have given the government the names of four Maoists who were seen marching Shah off at gunpoint, the police have failed to arrest them.
Sitaula blamed the nearby open India-Nepal border as well as the poorly equipped police force for the police failure to find the kidnapped journalist.