Southern Asia

Two water towers are blown up in Jango Ghari, a tribal area, where several other similar attacks have occured. The power systems atop the towers are destroyed in the blast as well.

American forces bomb the hydroelectric facility at Kajaki Dam in Helmand province of Afghanistan, cutting off electricity for the city of Kandahar. The dam itself is not targeted.

According to the Nepal Defence Ministry, soldiers repulse attempts by rebels to blow up the sources of Kathmandu’s drinking water supplies at Shivapuri and Sundarijal. No details of these incidents are given.

A camp of the Assam Rifles of the Indian military at Yairipok in Thoubal district with a mission to protect a water reservoir is attacked by suspected terrorists who fired grenades and other explosives on January 27. Later, a spokesman for the United National Liberation Front (UNLF) claims that the attack was carried out by its armed wing, the Manipur People’s Army, which has been fighting for what it called an “Independent Manipur.”

A rebel group, called the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists, destroys a warehouse of the Bijauri Drinking Water Project in Nepal, including 30,000 meters of polythene pipes.