Kathmandu: At least 30 lawyers and some journalists were injured on Thursday when police opened fire, lobbed tear gas shells and resorted to baton-charge to disperse advocates staging an anti-King demonstration in Kathmandu.
The incident took place even as Nepal
entered the eighth successive day of pro-democracy agitation.
Seventy-two people were detained from the rally at the restricted Babarmahal area, Nepal Bar Association sources said
adding, some 500 lawyers, human rights activists and journalists were taking part in the peaceful protest.
They said the injured include NBA President Sambhu Thapa, Vice-president Sher Bahadur K C, General Secretary Madhav Prasad Devkota, journalists Rishi Dhamala and Bijaya Poudyal.
As demonstrations continued in Kathmandu and other parts of the Kingdom for the eighth consecutive day, a private radio
station reported that six people were injured in Dolakah area in police firing during a protest today.
One person was killed and six others were injured as the Army fired at a
demonstration in Nawalparasi in western Nepal yesterday.
Police also arrested more than 10 people from a function organised by artists, poets and litterateurs on Wednesday in
support of the pro-democracy agitation.
King Gyanendra, who was on a tour in the western Nepal town of Pokhara, returned on Wednesday but is yet to comment on
the ongoing agitation, in the course of which five people were killed, hundreds wounded and more than a thousand arrested.
The King, under increasing international pressure to restore democratic rights, is expected to spell out his views
during his traditional Nepalese New Year's Day messege on Friday.
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