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A police team mobilized to arrest a rape accused has been attacked at Sain of Patala Rural Municipality-6. The villagers attacked the security personnel while they were trying to nab rape accused Sankalpa Budha, 31, on Monday. Assistant Police Inspector Lamxi Dhungel Rawat from Area Police Office, Patala was injured in the attack. Similarly, a local Dhan Man BK was injured in retaliation. Both the injured have been undergoing treatment at a local health post, according to Police Inspector Shuvraj Bam. Budha has been absconding following the incident. Search for him is underway, Bam added. Budha was accused of raping a Dalit woman in the village on October 17 last year. The victim’s family had filed an FIR at the District Police Office after a month of the crime. But the accused had been absconding. The police team was mobilized after police knew that Budha had arrived at his village. Although he was arrested while sleeping at home, the police team could not tackle villagers' attack, thereby being bound to lose the captive.

The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has started removing unmanaged cables from the electric poles in the streets of Kathmandu. The removal of cables followed an agreement between the KMC, the Nepal Electricity Authority and internet service providers on Sunday. The cable removal started today from Maitighar Mandala, and New Road area, said Superintendent of Police at the KMC police, Manoj Lamichhane. Earlier, the KMC had asked the NEA and internet service providers to remove unmanaged cables from electric poles in Kathmandu within May 10. But, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has issued a circular to the KMC not to remove cables that may disconnect internet service at local levels across the country. The KMC is at work to remove cables if the concerned authorities do not do it by themselves within the deadline, said Lamichhane. "The meeting yesterday agreed to remove cables from today (Monday). So, the removal of cables starts today," he said. The meeting decided to manage unmanaged cables in various phases from several areas of the Kathmandu Valley, said the Internet Service Providers' Association of Nepal (ISPAN). As per the agreement, unmanaged cables, tangling and unused ones, would be removed from the electric poles in the Valley, it has been said.  

A staffer at the Foreign Ministry was found dead in Begnas Lake on Monday. Karki police said that Anup Bhandari (31), non-gazetted officer at the Foreign Ministry, of Udayapur was found dead this morning. Locals had informed police after they saw a body floating on the water near Dungaghat at around 8:30 am today. His identity was ascertained on the basis of the identity card recovered from his pocket, DSP Shrawan Kumar BK of the District Police Office, Kaski said. He was stationed at the Passport Department. Bhandari’s body has been sent to the Western Regional Hospital for postmortem. Police said that they are looking into the case.

A search team has recovered the body of one more person who had gone missing in an avalanche at Byas Rural Municipality in Darchula. A team of the Armed Police Force found the body Ishwori Thapa (28) of Joyaral Rural Municipality-2, Doti this afternoon, the District Police Office, Darchula said. Earlier, the police had recovered the bodies of Kamala Kunwar (38), Prabin Kunwar (18) of Duhun Rural Municipality, Darchula and Chimi Somo of Joyoral Rural Municipality. Darchula police said that they are searching for one more person missing in the avalanche of May 2. It has been learnt that they had gone there to collect yarsagumba, yarsagumba caterpillar fungus (Cordyceps sinensis).