Nepal says bodies of 40 troops found after attack
Posted on: Tuesday, 9 August 2005, 06:30 CDT
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.
Source: REUTERS
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