WORLD IN BRIEF : NEPAL : Police Open Fire on Protesters, Killing 3
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Police fired on demonstrators demanding an end to the Himalayan nation’s 29-year-old ban on political parties, killing three people and wounding 12, witnesses said. Kamal Thapa, minister of state for communications, said police trying to control “extremists” in a clash in Bhaktapur, near the capital of Katmandu, had to fire “when the crowd tried to create an unpleasant scene.”
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