37 Dead In Nepal Violence     Thursday October 16, 2003 Sha'aban 19, 1424 A.H. KATHMANDU: At least 35 Maoist rebels and two police guards were killed on Wednesday in several armed clashes in Nepal, army sources said. "At least 20 Maoists were killed in an exchange of fire between the army security and Maoist rebels at Sodasa locality in Achham district 390 kilometres west of Kathmandu," said an army official who did not want to be named. Another seven guerrillas were killed by the army in the southwestern Dang district. Four rebels were killed in the western Salyan district and four in Wadula in the eastern Khotang district, the officials added. Meanwhile, a police source said two policemen were killed and one seriously injured during a rebel attack in Duhabi in Sunsari district, 290 kilometres far southeast of Kathmandu. The rebels killed in Achham and Dang district are believed to be part of the group that attacked a police training camp on Sunday night in Bhaluwang village in Dang, which left 25 rebels and 16 police dead. Elsewhere, rebels torched a four-wheel drive vehicle owned by Madhav Kumar Nepal, leader of the Nepal Communist Party-United Marxist-Leninist, the radio said. A bomb went off inside the Agriculture Development Office, in Nuwakot district, northwest of Kathmandu, causing damage to the office building, said the Nepali-language evening daily Sandhya kalin. No one was injured. The rebels also set fire to the house of National Democratic Party central member Pratibha Rana in mid-western Nepal’s Bardiya District on Wednesday morning, the newspaper said. But the Maoists did release the chairman of a left-wing student union after hundreds of students protested against his abduction, student sources said Wednesday. Hundreds of students protested in Kathmandu Monday demanding that the rebels free All Nepal National Free Students’ Union (ANNFSU) chairman Rajendra Kumar Rai, whom they had kidnapped on Friday.   ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The News International, Pakistan       -- TO THE SOURCE: http://jang.com.pk/thenews/oct2003-daily/16-10-2003/world/w1.htm -- home tao news who we support support duckdaotsu join duckdaotsu contact lisbeth       duckdaotsu.org