Jumla, Oct. 19 -- Two teenagers were injured when a socket bomb dating back to Nepal's decade-long Maoist insurgency exploded as they tried to cut an old iron pipe in Odi village of Jumla district on Monday morning.

Odi was once home to the Maoists' district office during the armed conflict, which lasted from 1996 to 2006. Police said the explosive inside the pipe dated back to that period.

The injured were identified as Bal Bahadur Rokaya, 14, and Kamal Thapa, 18, both from Hima Rural Municipality-2.

According to the District Police Office in Jumla, Thapa's condition is normal, while Rokaya's is more serious. Thapa is receiving treatment in the village, while Rokaya has been taken to Karnali Academy of Health Sciences Teaching Hospita...