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UPDATE 1-Nepal strike over alleged murders turns violent

Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:12pm IST
 
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KATHMANDU, Nov 20 (Reuters) - At least two people were injured and police lobbed teargas shells to break up protests after a general strike over the alleged murder of two men by Maoists took a violent turn in the Nepali capital on Thursday.

The Maoists, who fought a civil war from 1996 to 2006, are now heading a coalition government after emerging as the largest party in an election in April. They have denied the allegations.

Police said eight vehicles, including a press car, were damaged by stone-throwing protesters who also smashed some windows of a hotel.

Two protesters were injured in clashes with rival groups as different student groups affiliated with political parties also joined the strike, police said.

The shutdown in Kathmandu was a new headache for the Maoist-led government as the closure paralysed life across the hill-ringed capital, home to more than two million people.

Shops were shuttered, cars stayed off the streets, schools were closed and demonstrators burnt tyres.

Media reports this week said police had dug up the decomposing bodies of two young men who were allegedly taken by members of the Maoist Young Communist League (YCL) last month from a district adjoining Kathmandu.

The Maoist Young Communist League has been accused of violence and intimidation in the past but denied involvement in this incident and said the charges were baseless.  Continued...

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