Information About Incident 18774-31444-72086 in Mugu Nepal

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Nepal News report quoting the state owned Nepal Television (NTV) said that around 1000 Maoist insurgents had attempted to attack Gamgadhi, the headquarters of Mugu district on October 31.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Mugu
• Matched District: Mugu
• Actgroup: attack
• Actor: Maoist insurgents
• Subject: Gamgadhi , the headquarters of Mugu district

Context

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Nepal News report quoting the state owned Nepal Television (NTV) said that around 1000 Maoist insurgents had attempted to attack Gamgadhi, the headquarters of Mugu district on October 31. The security forces have recovered a dead body of an insurgent and there were no clear reports of the total casualties. The insurgents killed a former police personnel during their attack and destroyed nearly one dozen government offices including police, forest, postal and revenue offices and also two NGO office buildings. The power station and the telephone exchange were also destroyed in the Maoist attack. This was the first attack by the Maoist rebels after the brief ceasefire (October 20-28) observed by both Government and Maoists during the Dashain festival.

The original source are newspaper clippings and extracts collected by the South Asian Terrorism Portal.

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