One killed, dozen hurt in Nepal church blast

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 30th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Reacting quickly to the death of 23 Christians in a church collapse in eastern Nepal Wednesday, Nepal's Communist-led government expressed sorrow over the incident and wished for the speedy recovery of the more than five dozen people injured. Though engaged in the last-day celebration of the Hindu Dashain festival and simultaneously holding talks with the major parties to end the ongoing blockade of parliament by former Maoist guerrillas, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said he was "grieved and stunned" to hear about the tragedy in Dharan town in Sunsari district.

September 29th, 2009 Subject: Indian among 23 Christians killed in Nepal church collapse 1sud30 Nepal-Religion/Society Indian among 23CHRISTIANS KILLED IN NEPAL CHURCH COLLAPSE KATHMANDU - A get-together during the festive season in Nepal turned into a stark tragedy early Wednesday morning when 23 Christians, including an Indian, were crushed to death in a church instituted by an Indian convert in eastern Nepal. Most of the victims were women who died when a three-storey bamboo structure, built to accommodate Protestant Christians of the El Shaddai sect who had congregated in the Zion Prayer Hall in Dharan town in eastern Nepal?s Sunsari district, gave way around 12.30am.

September 29th, 2009 KATHMANDU - A get-together during the festive season in Nepal turned to stark tragedy early Wednesday when 23 Christians, including an Indian, were crushed to death in a church instituted by an Indian convert in eastern Nepal. Most of the victims were women who died when a three-storey bamboo structure, built to accommodate Protestant Christians of the El Shaddai sect in Dharan town in eastern Nepal's Sunsari district, gave way around 12.30 a.m.

September 29th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Twenty-three people attending a prayer service were killed and 65 injured when a church building collapsed in eastern Nepal, a media report said Wednesday. The incident took place Tuesday night in Dharan area of Sunsari district, some 220 km east of Kathmandu, state-run Nepal Television reported.

September 6th, 2009 Nepalese police arrest alleged militant leaderKATMANDU, Nepal — Police have arrested one of Nepal's most wanted men, the alleged leader of a shadowy militant group blamed in deadly attacks on a church and a mosque, the government said Monday. Ram Prasad Mainali, whom authorities believe is the leader of the underground Nepal Defense Army, was arrested in the southeastern town of Biratnagar on Saturday after months of investigation, Home Ministry spokesman Ramratna Pandey said.

September 6th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Three people were killed and seven others injured Sunday in a bomb blast in western Nepal, a media report said. The blast took place in Malakheti village in Dhangadhi area of Nepal's western Kailali district, Nepalnews.com reported.

September 6th, 2009 KATHMANDU - More than three months after a bomb went off during mass at one of Nepal's oldest churches, killing three women -- two of them Indians, police Sunday arrested the mastermind who is the head of an outlawed Hindu militant organisation. Ram Prasad Mainali, chief of the Nepal Defence Army, a shadowy outfit that had asked all Christians and Muslims to leave Nepal or face dire consequences, was caught with three associates from southeast Nepal.

September 6th, 2009 KATHMANDU - At least four leaders of the Nepal Defence Army (NDA), including its chairman R.P Mainali, have been arrested for possessing arms. The NDA leaders were arrested at about 11 a.m.

June 11th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - One person was killed and 35 hurt in a train blast Thursday in Pakistan's Balochistan province, a media report said. The blast occurred in the third carriage of the Bolan Express traveling from Karachi to Quetta, Geo TV reported.

June 2nd, 2009 KATHMANDU - Nepal police Tuesday said they had made a breakthrough in investigating the deadly blast that ripped through the prayer hall of one of the oldest Catholic churches in the country a week ago, killing three women and injuring at least 14 others. A 27-year-old married woman, whose name was given as Sita Shrestha nee Thapa, has been arrested in connection with the explosion at the Assumption Church in Lalitpur district May 23, Kathmandu police said at a press conference.

June 1st, 2009 KATHMANDU - A 45-year-old homemaker from Kerala became the third Indian churchgoer to die in Kathmandu valley's Patan Hospital after sustaining grievous injuries during the blast in a Catholic church nine days ago. Buddha Laxmi Joseph, who had come to Nepal almost 18 years ago along with her husband Baran Joseph and their three children in search of a better way of life, died of internal haemorrhage Sunday after fighting for life for a week.

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 - A teenager and a newly-married woman on her honeymoon from eastern India were killed while over a dozen others, mostly youngsters, were injured as a bomb exploded in one of Nepal's oldest churches during morning prayers Saturday, triggering fears of more violence on a day Nepal's parliament is to elect a new prime minister. Dipa Patrick, a 30-year-old woman from Patna in India's Bihar state who had arrived with her husband Vikash Patrick and two sisters-in-law four days ago to spend their honeymoon in Kathmandu, had planned a quick visit to the Assumption Church in Dhobighat in Kathmandu valley's Lalitpur district in the morning before returning to Patna by afternoon.

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.