Masterminds of Kathmandu school bombing arrested

Kathmandu / Oct 21: Police have arrested the main masterminds behind the September 20 bomb blasts that occurred in various schools of the Kathmandu Valley.

Min Bahadur Devkota and Keshav Dahal were arrested from Kavrepalanchok district while they were planning some criminal activities on Wednesday, a police official said.

Dahal and Devkota were the main masterminds behind the September 20 bomb blasts in valley schools, said police.

“Police have been successful to arrest the masterminds behind the September 20 bomb blasts in various schools of Kathmandu and Lalitpur districts,” said Thapa.

The bombing was planned with a motive to put pressures on the schools to meet demands of a Maoist outfit named Maoist Communist Centre, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Office, AIG Pratap Singh Thapa informed in a press conference today.

On September 20, two bombs had gone off at 3:40 am in two schools near Bouddha area. Similarly, suspicious objects had been found in eight schools of Kathmandu and one of Lalitpur.