ICC Note:

Two churches and a police station have been reportedly bombed in Nepal following the constitutional assembly rejecting a proposal that would declare Nepal a Hindu state. No one was killed in the low-intensity bombings, but a police officer is in critical condition due to wounds sustained by the explosion at the police station. Pamphlets from an organization called Hindu Morcha Nepal were found at the scenes of the bombings. Tensions in Nepal remain high due to the draft constitution which will now maintain Nepal as a secular state. 

9/15/2015 Nepal (Hindustan Times) – Blasts in churches and a police station were reported in violence-hit Nepal on Monday night, hours after the constituent assembly drafting a new Constitution rejected a proposal to declare the country a Hindu state.

Police said no one was wounded in the low-intensity blasts around midnight at two churches in the far-eastern Jhapa district but a policeman was in grave condition after a bomb brought from another church exploded at a police station. Two other policemen were also wounded in the explosion.

Pamphlets belonging to an organization called Hindu Morcha Nepal were found at the churches, said reports quoting local officials.

The Himalayan nation has been on the edge since the draft Constitution was unveiled last month. Over three dozen people have been killed in violent protests in the southern plains or Tarai region over a proposal to carve the country of 28 million people into seven states or provinces.

The situation became tense on Monday as pro-Hindu organizations disapproved of the constituent assembly’s quashing of a proposal by the Rashtriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal that the nation should revert to its Hindu state status. Nepal was a Hindu nation for centuries until Parliament declared it a secular state in 2008.

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