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Situation better in some Terai dists: Ministry

Monday - 05th February 2007

KATHMANDU, Feb. 4: Ministry of Home Affairs has said there has been improvement in situation of some districts of Terai that had been violent for few days.

The local administrations in some district have imposed curfew in order to contain situation to protect lives and public and private properties.

Ten people who were injured in Bahuawabhatha, Parsa are getting medical treatment in Narayani Hospital. Here, personnel of armed police were compelled to fire blank in the air after the demonstrators used stones, sticks and other weapon as they were protecting District Administration Office. The demonstrators were gathered in the name of holding peaceful assembly.

The Ministry has urged all to maintain social understanding and not be influenced by anybody's mislead and help the government in its task to maintain peace and order in order to protect lives and properties of the people.

Two dead in Sarlahi protests Our Correspondent in Sarlahi adds that at least two persons were killed while 12 others, including seven policemen, injured during the demonstration in Sarlahi.

Two policemen and two demonstrators, who were seriously injured, have been brought to Kathmandu for treatment.

The Madhesi communities continued their protest defying the curfew clamped by the local administration in Malangawa City.

In Birgunj, at least a couple of dozen people were injured, four of them seriously, when police opened fire on a protest rally of several thousand persons that turned violent and headed towards the district administration office at Ghantaghar in Birgunj Sunday afternoon.

The four were airlifted to Kathmandu by Nepal Army helicopter for treatment. Those injured were Birbal Mukhiya, Rajesh Singh, Srinarayan and Mohataj Miya.

The protestors had broken the curfew in organising the protest and following the protest the district administration lifted the curfew.

The protestors also busted the statue of Thir Bam Malla, a freedom fighter, who was commander of the democratic revolution against the Rana oligarchy in Birgunj in 1951.

Meanwhile RSS adds that the District Administration Office of Sarlahi district has clamped curfew in Malangwa Municipality are from 7:30 Am to 8:30 PM Sunday.


Source gorkhapatra