AT least two people were killed and many more injured in five bomb blasts around Kathmandu today, a senior police officer said.
Deputy superintendent Prajit KC said at least 15 people had been wounded, three of them critically, in the blasts, which occurred just minutes apart.
”High explosive devices were used. We've just begun our investigations and we have no idea who may have done this,” said Sudip Giri, another deputy superintendent with the Kathmandu police.
One of the blasts was outside a university campus and another was at a bus stand in a busy part of the city centre, Mr Giri said.
The last reported bomb attack in Kathmandu was at a police post in April 2006, just before the former rebel Maoists entered a landmark peace deal with the government after a decade of war against the monarchy.
Political parties formed a new government in April 2006 after King Gyanendra, a constitutional monarch, ended 14 months of direct rule.
The rebels and the new government reached a pact in November that paved the way for the Maoists to join parliament in early 2007.
Both parties have pledged to campaign in polls scheduled for late November to elect a constituent assembly and rewrite the constitution, including the role of the monarchy.