By SPA
Kathmandu, Nepal : Police opened fire on rampaging protesters in western Nepal on Wednesday, killing at least one of them, a day ahead of a landmark election to chart the country’s political future, officials said.
The protesters, enraged by the slaying of a candidate a day earlier, began smashing stores and vandalizing buses in the mountainous Surkhet district, prompting police to fire at them with live ammunition, the area’s police chief, Ram Kumar Khanal was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
The protesters were defying a curfew imposed in the area following the killing Tuesday of the candidate, Khanal said. One of the protesters was killed Wenesday, he said.
Voting in the area also was suspended, although the rest of Nepal will hold the election as planned on Thursday.