Another injured agitator dies

May 1, 2006
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Mohammad Jahagir, an Indian national, who was badly injured in police firing during a demonstration at Tripureshwor on April 22, has died while undergoing treatment at Kathmandu Model Hospital in Kathmandu.

26 years old Jahagir, who comes from Sitamadi of India’s Bihar state, died at around 3:00 Monday morning during treatment, the hospital said. He was shot in the head.

Jahagir had been living at Baneshwor with his wife, three sons and mother for the last ten years. He is the first foreign national to become martyr of Nepal’s democratic movement.

His family has sought government’s help to take his body to Bihar for cremation, hospital officials said.

With his death the number of the people killed in during government clampdown on the pro-democracy movement has reached 19.

Pradhyumna Khadka of Syuchartar, Kathmandu, who was shot at by the police during a demonstration in Kalanki on April 20, had died at All India Medical Sciences in New Delhi on Friday.

Reports say thousands of injured persons are receiving treatment at various hospitals in Kathmandu and outside. At least 5000 people were injured in clashes with security forces around the country during the democratic movement.