One student was killed and many others were injured in a police firing in Butwal Tuesday on students protesting this month’s increase in prices of POL products, students said.
Debi Lal Paudel, President of the Nepal Progressive Student Organization, was killed in the firing.
Students said “dozens’ were injured in the firing. The town, 200 kms southwest of the capital, is tense after the firing, reports from the town said.
Seven student unions organizing the protests condemned the killings in a statement. Students nationwide stopped vehicles in front of campuses nationwide for 30 minutes.