RAUTAHAT: The District Attorney Office Rautahat is filing a murder case against former minister and Nepali Congress (NC) leader Mohammad Aftab Alam over a connection to a bombing on April 9, 2008.

Alam is accused of burning 23 of his cadres, including 21 Indian nationals, to death in a brick kiln in Rautahat.

The cadres were reportedly making a bomb following Alam’s order and were injured when the bomb accidentally went off. Seven persons were killed in the bombing.