COLD KILLS SEVEN IN BARA, RAUTAHAT Kathmandu, 10 Jan. The current cold wave killed seven persons in Bara and Rautahat Wednesday. Five were killed in Ratahat, police said. Nnnn COLD KILLS TWO MORE IN SAPTARI Kathmandu, 10 Jan.: Two more people succumbed to the cold in Saptari on Thursday. The victims have been identified as 60-year-old Asarfi Yadav of Pakari VDC-5 and 12-year-old Chandrika Sada of Fattehpur-7. Both died at their respective home, according to family sources. The death toll due to cold so far in the district has reached 36. Likewise, in Kanchanpur, two elderly died of cold in Amarpur of Jhalari-9. Dhan Bahadur Kami,52, and Bir Bahadur Luhar,65, died of the sweeping cold wave, according to local resident Dil Bahadur Budha. Nnnn PRESIDENT RECEIVED CREDENTIALS FROM SRI LANKAN AMBASSADOR Katthmandu, 10 Jan.: : President Dr Ram Baran Yadav received the Letters of Credence from newly appointed Ambassadors of Sri Lanka, Zambia and Afghanistan to Nepal at a special ceremony held at the Ceremonial Hall, Office of the President, Shital Niwas on Thursday, RSS reports . Those presenting their Letters of Credence today were Ambassador of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Mr Wijekoon Mudiyanselage Senevirathna, Ambassador of Republic of Zambia Ms Susan Sikaneta and Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to Nepal Mr Shaida Mohammad Abdali. Ms Sikaneta and Mr Abdali are non-residential ambassadors to Nepal and based in New Delhi. Acting Chief of the Army Staff Lt. Gen. Nepal Bhusan Chand, Secretary at the Office of the President Shital Babu Regmee, Foreign Secretary Durga Prasad Bhattarai and other senior officials from the Office of the President and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were present on the occasion, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. nnnn INDIAN MAOISTS PLANT BOMB IN MAN’S STOMACH 1 Kathmandu, 10 Jan.: Maoist rebels planted a bomb inside the stomach of an Indian policeman killed during clashes in the eastern state of Jharkhand, a hotbed of left-wing extremism, police said on Thursday, AFP reports from Patna.. The bomb was found by a team of doctors conducting post-mortems following the death of 10 policemen in Latehar district, 108 kilometres (67 miles) from the state capital Ranchi, after a clash with the insurgents on Monday. The doctors became suspicious upon seeing stitches around the stomach of the dead man, senior Jharkhand police officer S.N. Pradhan told AFP. "We were not prepared for it because we never expected such (a) thing," he said. The device was later defused by a bomb squad, a senior official from the Central Reserve Police Force told the Press Trust of India news agency. "The doctors were shocked to see that vital organs like intestines and spleen were taken out to create a cavity to place the 1.5kg unexploded bomb. The Naxals (Maoists) had done a very clean vertical stitching," the agency said, quoting the official. The Maoist guerrillas, described by the government as the country´s most serious internal security threat, control large swathes of central and eastern India and often raise funds through extortion and protection rackets. In New Delhi, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said the government had taken note of the latest tactic. "An IED (improvised explosive device) was found stitched in the stomach. It was found out and defused. They keep coming up with new ploys, we have given instructions and taken control of the situation," he said at a press conference. Maoists say they are fighting for the rights of poor farmers and landless labourers. They have spread into rural pockets in 20 of India´s 28 states. Thousands have been killed in the insurgency since the late 1960s. Nnnn .