KATHMANDU, NEPAL, May 8, 2002: More than 240 police, soldiers and rebels have been killed in fresh violence in Nepal, as Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba said he had secured US support for his crackdown against the Maoist insurgency. Some 140 Nepalese police and soldiers were killed when guerrillas surrounded a joint army-police security post set up last month at Gama in Rolpa, 298 km west of Kathmandu. The Maoists torched the security station after a gunfight lasting hours. The defense ministry confirmed “a large number” of Maoists attacked the security post but did not give casualty figures. In other battles large numbers of Maoists have been killed by the army.
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