Indefinite curfew in Lamjung district headquarters

Lamjung district administration office has imposed indefinite curfew in the district headquarters Besishahar from Thursday noon after violent clashes between a group of local youths and the Maoist-affiliated Young Communist League (YCL) over the tender of scrap materials of Mid-Marsyangdi hydropower project.

The curfew order came after tension escalated when YCL cadres beat up the
local youths, who had thrashed a local Maoist leader yesterday and barred him from filing the bid, reports said.

Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) had opened the tender of the scrap materials worth 10.5 million rupees.

Security has been beefed up in the town amid fears of fresh clashes between the two groups. nepalnews.com mk Aug 07 08