Maoists waging a nine-year armed insurgency to set up a communist republic in Nepal killed six civilians including a child in west Nepal Monday, it was reported Tuesday. The privately-owned Kantipur Television said the Maoists killed the six after abducting them from their home near a police barracks in Dhangadi in Kailali district, 520 kilometres west of Kathmandu, dpa reported. Nepalese internet news channel Kantipuronline reported that three of those killed were wives of security personnel anmd the others were family members including a one-year old child, dpa reported. The report coincided with human rights organisations, at a joint press conference Tuesday, condemning the killing by Maoists of 36 civilians travelling in a bus last week in southern Nepal. The human rights activists demanded that those responsible for the landmine blast that killed over three dozen civilians must be brought to justice. --SP 2332 Local Time 2032 GMT
