Information About Incident 23721-40439-91587 in Palpa Nepal

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Following the clash, SFs launched aerial raids over the Basantpur forest area in Palpa district on February 10 as they suspect that the Maoists who attacked the troops in Nawalparasi were hiding in the forest area.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Palpa Nawalparasi
• Matched District: Palpa
• Actgroup: attack
• Actor: the Maoists who
• Subject: the troops in Nawalparasi

Context

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

At least 16 security force (SF) personnel, four Maoists and a civilian were killed in clashes at Rambhapur area along the Sunwal-Butwal section of the Sidhhartha Highway in Nawalparasi district on February 9-night. The victims included two police personnel, six Armed Police Force (APF) personnel and eight Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) soldiers. About a dozen SF personnel were also injured while some remain out of contact, Kantipur Online reported. The clash occurred when the Maoists attacked SFs who had reached Rambhapur to remove roadblocks put up by the former. Following the clash, SFs launched aerial raids over the Basantpur forest area in Palpa district on February 10 as they suspect that the Maoists who attacked the troops in Nawalparasi were hiding in the forest area.

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