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THE call for an eight-day nationwide general strike by the anti-poll political groups met with massive resistance as five people sustained injuries and bandh supporters hurled explosives on three buses in the capital and elsewhere.
The government made heavy deployment of security forces,which were armed with sweeping powers to arrest anyone suspected to be a troublemaker across the country.
All the 40 passengers of a Kathmandu-bound bus had a narrow escape when it was hit with a fire-ball near Narayangarh in the wee hours of Tuesday. Police said no one had been arrested over the incident but supporters of the anti-poll groups were suspected to be behind it.
In Kathmandu,five were injured,two of them seriously,when two buses were hit with explosives. Police said altogether 10 public buses had been damaged.
The bomb disposal unit of the Nepal army also took control of around 12 sites in different parts of the country as suspicious objects were found there,police said,adding most of them were fake bombs.
The 33-party alliance led by the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists,which had earlier given a 10-day bandh call intended to hamper campaigning and the election on November 19,had scaled it down by limiting it to paralysing the transport system,private and public across the country until poll day beginning Tuesday.
