Police foil bombers’ terror plot in Nepal

(March 07, 2011) Police in Kathmandu claim they have foiled a plot by an insurgent group to detonate more bombs in the capital. They arrested six members of the National Defence Army (NDA) linked to Mainali, who is in jail in Kathmandu in connection with his involvement in a series of murders and bomb blasts, including the deadly blast in Kathmadu’s Assumption Church on May 23rd, 2009. Police said the six admitted they came to the capital to detonate the bombs on busy thoroughfares. He said that that the terror may not have been aimed at Christians this time as “their aim was to cause maximum casualties in crowded areas, so as to create fear, that would help them extort money from businessmen and leaders of big industrial projects. The NDA also killed Salesian Father John Prakash in June 2008 in Sirsiya (eastern Nepal) and detonated over two dozens bombs in several parts of Kathmandu.