Nepal says bodies of 40 troops found after attack

KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s army said on Tuesday it had
found the bodies of 40 soldiers killed fighting Maoist rebels
while 76 other troops were still missing two days after a
fierce gun battle in the west of the country.

“Forty of our men have achieved martyrdom,” an army officer
told Reuters. The rebels had said 159 troops were killed and
another 50 captured in the firefight that began late on Sunday,
but the army had rejected that claim.