Information About Incident 29313-52367-120528 in Tanahu Nepal

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Superintendent of Police in Rupandehi District, Rabiraj Shrestha, said that MJF cadres were behind the killings, but the Rupandehi MJF president Chandrika Yadav claimed that his party was not behind the killings and said that locals killed the duo to protest against the Maoists' injustice.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Rupandehi District
• Matched District: Tanahu
• Actgroup: kill
• Actor: locals
• Subject: the duo

Context

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Activists of the Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum (MJF) abducted and subsequently killed two central members of the Maoist-affiliated Young Communist League (YCL) on June 13 at Shivpur in the Gonaha Village Development Committee (VDC) area of Rupandehi district, Himalayan Times reports. MJF activists killed Binod Pant a.k.a. Jitendra, the Maoists' Gandak bureau member and YCL's Lumbini zonal joint coordinator and Sheshmani Lamichhane a.k.a. Mani, YCL's Rupandehi district secretariat member. Superintendent of Police in Rupandehi District, Rabiraj Shrestha, said that MJF cadres were behind the killings, but the Rupandehi MJF president Chandrika Yadav claimed that his party was not behind the killings and said that locals killed the duo to protest against the Maoists' injustice.

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