Thursday, April 20, 2006


Curfew extended in capital

The authorities have extended the 18 hours long (2 am to 8 pm) curfew in the capital on Thursday by seven hours. Now the curfew that was to end at 8 pm Thursday will be in place till 3 am Friday. This the first time that the authority has impose curfew for 25 hours. Normal life in Kathmndu is hardest ever .

Mainwhile Police have forcibly taken away the bodies of three protesters killed in police firing at a huge pro-democracy demonstration at Kalanki on Thursday."The police took all the bodies at around 6:45 pm and I don't know where they have taken to. The bodies had not yet been identified," said Dr. Sarita Pandey of Kathmandu Model Hospital.

"They (police) forcibly entered into the hospital, broke the mercury room where the bodies are kept and took it away," said Pandey.One of the dead has been identified as Basu Ghimire working in Kalanki Kathamndu Mill.

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