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Six killed in Nepal blast

KATHMANDU: Six people, most of them teenagers, were killed and two others injured in a bomb blast in a central Nepal village, police said on Sunday.

A police spokesman said the incident took place on Saturday at Kalyanitar village about 65 km (40 miles) west of Kathmandu when village teenagers tried to break open an object near a firing range of the Royal Nepal Army.

The boys were in the area looking for firewood.-Reuters