Nepal bus bomb rebels implicate the govt

Communist rebels today said that Nepal’s royal government may have had a hand in a landmine explosion that killed 38 people and wounded 71 others on a bus, and vowed to conduct their own investigation into the attack.

The army has blamed the rebels for the explosion yesterday. The guerrillas did not deny responsibility for the attack in a brief statement on their Nepali-language website, but said they would launch a “serious” investigation.