Woman detonates bomb inside cathedral following the Gloria…
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Two people were killed, including a teenage girl, and 14 wounded when a bomb exploded yesterday in a Roman Catholic church packed with worshippers on the outskirts of the Nepalese capital, police said. A Christian leader said the attack, the first on a Christian church, marked the “saddest day” in the history of the religion in the impoverished mountain nation.
The church — Kathmandu’s only Roman Catholic place of worship was jammed with around 500 people when the device went off at the start of morning mass, creating panic as people rushed for the exits, the police said.
A pamphlet of an obscure Hindu extremist group called the National Defence Army was found at the blast site in Lalitpur, a district adjoining Kathmandu, the police said. But the police said it was too soon to assign blame for the attack on the Church of Assumption which came hours before lawmakers were due to vote for a new premier after weeks of political instability in the world’s newest republic.
“A 15-year old student, Celestina Joseph, and 30-year-old Pabitra Paitri died in the bomb blast. Five of the injured are in serious condition,” police officer Ram Brish Chaudhary told AFP. “Security has been increased and an investigation is going on,” said Chaudhary.
It was the first attack on a Christian church in the Hindu-dominated Nepal.
“There was a black plastic bag on one of the seats. It blew up when one of the church attendants tried to remove it,” worshipper Peter Limbu told AFP from his hospital bed as doctors attended him.
“Suddenly there was a loud noise and flames inside the hall. It was just a few metres (yards) away from me,” said Limbu, his face and shirt streaked with blood.
“The windows of the church were shattered and there was a panic. All the people began to run outside,” he said. “I ran for cover too and I can’t hear with my right ear now,” he added.
The National Defence Army, which says it is fighting to restore the nation’s Hindu monarchy abolished in 2008, had claimed responsibility earlier for killing a missionary in eastern Nepal last July.
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first time in the history of Nepal, this is the bloody attack for creating religious dispuits between all the religion.
we all pray and good health who are victimes from this attacks.
churchs, temples, mosks should be terror free.
Pawan—
Yes, there is so much evil inspired violence in the world and truly terrorism is a plague…
I join you in your prayers for victims.
jme
whatever happened was really, really sad and horrible….such a thing should have never ever happened….out of all the places, in the house of god..where hundreds of inncocent people are hurt without any fault……i was really heart broken 2 hear this trerrifying news……
violence is jus not the answer to any religious disparity act…..
i deeply pray for all the victims, and may the demised sould R.I.P
duksangh