location: Janakpur
notes: On 30 April 2012, five people were killed and 31 others injured when a powerful bomb exploded near a group of demonstrators at Ramananda Chowk in Janakpur (Central). The bomb, fitted on a motorcycle, went off while the Mithila State Struggle Committee (MSSC) was organizing a sit-in program demanding an autonomous Mithila state in federal Nepal. The incident happened on the third day of protests by the MTSC which was organizing a three-hour sit-in program by preventing vehicles from passing through Ramananda Chowk. The Janatantrik Tarai Mukti Morcha Rajan group claimed the responsibility for the blast. [size=no report]
target_text: location: Janakpur, fatalities: 5