Bomb blast kills three in Nepal

October 12th, 2009 BEIRUT - A Hezbollah official was killed late Monday when a bomb left behind from the 2006 war with Israel exploded near his house, Lebanese police said. Saeed Nasser, a Hezbollah official in southern Lebanon, died in the blast in the village of Tayr Filsi on the southern bank of the Litani river, police said.

October 9th, 2009 PESHAWAR - At least six people were killed and 30 others grievously injured in a powerful bomb blast that rocked Peshawar on Friday noon. The blast occurred in Khyber Bazaar near the North West Frontier Province assembly building, sources said.

October 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A bomb explosion outside the UN's World Food Programme offices in Islamabad on Monday killed one person and injures two others, police say. "There was a blast in the street where a UN office is located.

October 2nd, 2009 1 killed, 12 hurt in Sri Lanka bomb blastCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A schoolgirl was killed by a car bomb in northwestern Sri Lanka that also wounded 12 others Friday, mostly students who were about to travel in the vehicle, officials said. It was the first major bomb blast in the country since government troops crushed the Tamil Tiger rebels in May after a 25-year insurgency.

September 30th, 2009 Police: Church collapse in Nepal kills 24KATMANDU, Nepal — A church dormitory collapsed on attendees of a Christian conference in eastern Nepal as they slept early Wednesday, killing at least 24 people and injuring an additional 62, police said. The people had gathered in the eastern town of Dharan on Monday for the weeklong conference and were sleeping in a church extension made of bamboo and tin roofing when the collapse took place, police official Arjun Khadka said.

September 17th, 2009 LONDON - At least six persons have died and 38 injured in a bomb attack on Thursday in the centre of Kabul amid rising tension in Afghanistan. The blast occurred near the U.S embassy.

August 3rd, 2009 HERAT - At least 12 people were killed and another 20 were injured in a remote controlled bomb blast in the western Afghanistan city of Herat on Monday, just weeks before the presidential elections. Provincial police chief Esmatullah Alizai said the blast was caused by a bomb planted in a roadside rubbish bin and remotely detonated.

June 29th, 2009 COTABATO - At least three people were killed and seven wounded when a homemade bomb ripped through a public market Monday in the restive southern Philippines, according to witnesses. The bomb, placed inside a trash can, went off shortly before 6.30 a.m.

June 16th, 2009 KATHMANDU - A 25-year-old Indian was injured when a bomb he was allegedly carrying exploded in farwestern Nepal early Tuesday, police said. Narendra Kumal, a resident of Ghaziabad town in India's Uttar Pradesh state, was carrying the home-made bomb when it exploded around 5 a.m.

June 11th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least one person was killed and 35 left injured on Thursday in a bomb explosion in a train in Quetta city of Pakistan. According to a railway official, the bomb was hidden in a toilet and exploded on a train.

May 24th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Newly elected Nepal Prime Minister Madhav Kumar on Sunday condemned Saturday's bomb blast at the Church of Assumption of Dhobighat in Lalitpur in which two persons were killed. Kumar visited the blast site on Sunday, and condemned it, saying the incident was targeted at creating religious tension in the region.

May 23rd, 2009 KATHMANDU - At least two persons were killed and over a dozen others were injured when a bomb went off near a catholic church in Dhobighat of Lalitpur district today, hours before the country was set to elect a new prime minister. The blast took place at 9.15 am when as prayer was about to begin.

May 22nd, 2009 PESHAWAR - A car bomb exploded on Cinema Road in Peshawar, killing six people and injuring more than 20, police said on Friday. The dead and injured are being shifted to the city's hospitals where emergency has been declared, The News reported.

May 16th, 2009 PESHAWAR - At least ten persons including women and children were killed and twenty others were injured in a powerful car bomb blast in Peshawar on Saturday. The blast occurred on the busy Circular Road in the densely populated Berisco area at Kashkal.

December 31st, 2008 KATHMANDU - A 16-year-old Indian teenager was hurt as a bomb went off in a busy area of the capital Thursday, the third blast to disrupt life in the city since last week. Bimal Gupta, who came from Barganiya village in India's Bihar district to eke out his livelihood in the Nepali capital, was the only person injured by the bomb that went off near the post office at the Sundhara area of the capital, a busy commercial place teeming with shops, vehicles and people.