Three dead in Nepal blast: police

KATHMANDU: Three people were killed and two others injured on Monday when a bomb suspected by police to be a left-over from Nepal's civil war went off in the southwest of the country, officials said.

"Three people of a same family died on the spot and two were seriously injured," police officer Prabin Adhikari, told media from Chitwan district, 80 kilometres (50 miles) southwest of Kathmandu.

The blast occurred while the family was working on the field at the back of their house on Monday morning, according to police.

"We suspect the bomb must have been left unattended on the field during the armed conflict," Adhikari said.

Rebel Maoists waged a 10-year war against the government until a peace deal was struck in 2006.

Many unexploded bombs litter the country, left in villages and jungles during the conflict, which claimed the lives of more than 16,000 people.