The injured include Ram Bahadur Chaudhary, a teacher of the local Majhatha Secondarry School.[break]
The injured are undergoing treatment at Gorkha Hospital.
Meanwhile, the UCPN (Maoist) has claimed that UML cadres from Takukot, Dhawa and Arugha attacked them all of a sudden when a discussion was taking place under the auspices of the local club in Tharchowk of Swara VDC.
However, CPN-UML Gorkha says that its cadres were physically assaulted by the Maoist cadres as they were on an election campaigning.
UML Takukot Village Committee chairman Bhim Bahadur Thapa, Vice-chair Dhan Prasad Gurung and other were injured.
Locals Mahendra Tamang, Anu Gurung Tamang and Sujan Gurung were also injured in the incident that took place at around 8:30 pm last night, police said.
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