Blast damages Nepal university

A bomb has exploded at a university in Nepal, damaging office buildings, in the latest of a series of similar attacks, which police have blamed on Maoist rebels.

No one was injured in the explosion at Tribhuvan University -the oldest institution of higher education in Nepal - but the force of the blast blew a hole in a wall.

The Vice-chancellor of the university, Navin Prakash Jung Shah, said the act of damaging what he called a citadel of learning should be deplored by everyone.

No one has admitted carrying out the attack.

(From the newsroom of BBC World Service)