Information About Incident 20861-35195-79776 in Sarlahi Nepal

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On May 18, the insurgents had attacked a passenger bus in Sarlahi, killing the driver of the bus and injuring a passenger.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Sarlahi, Sarlahi, Sarlahi
• Matched District: Sarlahi
• Actgroup: attack, kill, injure
• Actor: the insurgents, the insurgents, the insurgents
• Subject: a passenger bus in Sarlahi, the driver of the bus, a passenger

Context

This data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.

Further, even as the Maoist supported trade union, All Nepal Trade Union Federation, announced a withdrawal of all its protest programmes, vehicular transport was badly affected in many parts of Nepal on May 19. Nepal News has reported that vehicular movement remained largely paralyzed in cities like Biratnagar, Birgunj, Narayanghat, Butwal and elsewhere. Except for some vehicles with security escorts, very few long-route buses were seen on the major highways. However, in the Kathmandu Valley, traffic remained normal. On May 18, the insurgents had attacked a passenger bus in Sarlahi, killing the driver of the bus and injuring a passenger.

The original source are newspaper clippings and extracts collected by the South Asian Terrorism Portal.

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