At least 38 people, including 35 Maoist rebels, were killed when the guerrillas attacked a police post in western Nepal, ending a temporary truce to mark the Hindu festival of Dasain, a police official said today.
"We have recovered 35 bodies from the site and more bodies have been buried by them (rebels) near a river," police official Shiva Raj Gauli told Reuters about the raid at Kusum, 450 kilometres west of the capital Kathmandu.
Three policemen were also killed in the overnight gunbattle, he said.