Markets, schools and factories were closed across Nepal’s southern plains on Tuesday in response to the killing of three protesters who tried to disrupt a political rally.
Security forces opened fire at the rally on Monday, killing three protesters and wounding more than a dozen, in the south-eastern town of Rajbiraj, where the Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML) party had organised a get-out-the-vote rally before local elections.
The police put the death toll at four, but later revised it to three.
Santosh Niraula, a local police officer, said much of the public transport remained off the roads in the southern flatlands
source http://www.omnipopmag.com/2017/03/07/protesters-shut-much-of-south-nepal-a-day-after-clashes/
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