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500 Maoists killed: Army

KATHMANDU, MARCH 21. At least 500 Maoist rebels were killed and 200 injured in a battle with security forces in western Nepal, where the rebels attacked a district headquarters, freed some prisoners from a jail and looted a bank, the Royal Nepal Army claimed today.

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