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16 injured in clashes in Nepal on sixth day of Maoist strike | | At least 16 persons were injured when a clash broke out
between the UCPN (Maoist) activists and locals participating in an anti-shutdown rally at Bhandardik of Lekhnath Municipality in Nepal Kaski District on Friday.
Fourteen of the injured are Maoists and the other two are locals. The Maoists
who have imposed an indefinite strike since Sunday took out a rally after the
people started demonstrating against the shutdown and chanted anti-Maoist slogans,
subsequently leading to a clash. Police lobbed a few rounds of tear gas shells
to disperse the crowd after the clash turned violent. In another incident, at
least five persons including four policemen were injured in Attarkhel area of
Jorpati district. The policemen and a non-aligned civilian were caught up in the
clash between the shutdown-enforcers. Maoist cadres also clashed with the participants
of the peace rally organised by professionals in Kathmandu. Maoist has claimed
that the clash ensued after the peace rally participants led by the UML youth
wing Youth Force (YF) cadres pelted stones at them. Likewise, tension also erupted
in Patan after the participants of the peace assembly organised at Krishna Temple
pelted stones at the vehicle being used by the Maoists. Meanwhile, the representatives
of professional organisations has warned the major political parties to find an
outlet to the ongoing political crisis within two days by forging consensus. They
said the people would run out of their patience if the parties could not find
a way out of the political mess that has brought Nepal to complete standstill,
Kantipur reported. |
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