BOMBING UPDATE EMERGENCY MEETING OF SECURITY CHIEFS CONVENED

EMERGENCY MEET OF SECURITY CHIEFS CONVENED UPDATE
Kathmandu, 27 Feb.: An emergency meeting of security
agencies has been convened by the home ministry after the
deadly bombing.
Home Minister Bijaya Kumar Gachedhar, who is also Deputy
Prime Minister ,has returned to his office after inspecting the
bombing site and talking with doctors and injured at Bir
Hospital where seven injured are undergoing treatment.
Security chiefs started a meeting.
A regular cabinet meeting has been convened where the
bombing is expected to figure prominently.
Gachedhar has made no comments so far despite request by reporters.
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Emergency meet of security
PLOT TO ASSASSINATEPUTIN
Kathmandu, 27 Feb.:MOSCOW: Russian and Ukrainian security groups have foiled a plan to assassinate Prime Minister Vladimir Putin after Russia's March 4 presidential election, Russia's pro-government Channel One television said on Mondaym Reuters reportsfrom Moscow..

The report, which did not quote any named security officials, said Ukrainian special services had detained two people in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odessa after an explosion at a rented apartment in which one person was killed.

The report said the plotters had been working for a group that wants to create an Islamic state in Russia's North Caucasus and had planned to travel to Moscow to assassinate Putin, who is expected to win the presidential election.

Channel One said the Ukrainian special services had alerted the Russian FSB security agency and the men had been detained early this year.

"Our final goal was to go to Moscow and attempt to assassinate Putin," a man described as one of the plotters was shown as saying on Channel One. "Our deadline was after the election of the president of Russia."

Russia's Interfax news agency said Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov had declined to comment on the incident. He could not immediately be reached for comment.
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