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Maoists bomb second Coca-Cola plant in Nepal

Striking for the second time at a Coca-Cola plant in Nepal, Maoist guerrillas bombed a factory of the soft-drink giant in Chitawan district causing little damage, a staffer said on Wednesday.

Maoists exploded a powerful bomb at the Coca-Cola factory at Gondrang in Bharatpur municipality of Chitawan district Tuesday but missed the target causing no serious damage, he said, adding, no one has been reported injured.

The incident occured two months after a similar attack on the company's Kathmandu factory.

The blast shattered window panes and caused cracks in houses within 200 metres. A wall also collapsed from the impact of the blast.

The Maoists in November bombed Coca-Cola's other factory in Nepal, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, after the government declared a state of emergency to contain the guerrillas.

The step is being viewed by the local business-community as a means to convey resentment against the United States. The Nepalese own almost no shares in the Coca-Cola's factories in the country.

The US has backed Nepal's crackdown on the Maoists, who are anti-American. Nepal in turn has firmly backed the US-led military campaign in Afghanistan.

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