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Bomb blast kills one in Nepal

KATHMANDU - AT LEAST one person was killed and another injured in southwest Nepal on Monday when a bomb exploded inside a government building, police said.

The explosion occurred at the office of the transport management department in the town of Nepalgunj, 350 kilometres south-west of Kathmandu.

'One person died on the spot and another one was injured in the blast on Monday afternoon,' Pradip Kumar, a local police officer told AFP.

Nepal's south, known as Terai and dominated by the ethnic Madhesi community, has been the scene of sporadic violence since a peace deal was reached between former rebel Maoists and the government in late 2006. -- AFP

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