BIRGUNJ, Nov 4: Birgunj has remained tense since the last three days due to demonstrations staged by Madhesi protestors after security personnel attempted to remove the blockage at Nepal-India border at Raxual on Monday.
The curfew order that local administration enforced after Monday’s incident continued on Wednesday. Due to the three-day-long curfew, locals have been terrified, according to Jogindra Mahato, a local entrepreneur.
“I cannot go to work during curfew,” he said. “If the situation doesn’t improve, it will be difficult for us to survive,” Mahato added.
Following use of force against the protestors who were staging sit-in at the border and death of an Indian national in police firing on Monday, irate locals and cadres of the United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) defied the curfew on Wednesday and staged demonstrations at several places in Birgunj. On Monday, security personnel had removed protestors from the bridge and torched their tents and tarpaulins.
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The protestors have reoccupied the Nepal-India Friendship bridge in Birgunj and erected tents on Wednesday. They have been blocking Nepal-bound supplies from India for the past several weeks.
Locals have become irate after police thrashed Mihir Kumar Karna, a local of Murali Chowk in Birgunj, on Tuesday evening, according to our correspondent. Karna, who was severely injured in the incident is currently undergoing treatment at Narayani Sub-regional Hospital. According to the doctors, he is out of danger.
Meanwhile, Pradeep Yadav, coordinator for protests in Parsa district said that many locals and agitating Madhesi party cadres have been blocking the border.
“We have made blockage tougher again to pressurize the government to address Madhesis’ demands,” he said.
Likewise, district-based reporters of national media have expressed concerns over their safety after agitating cadres reportedly attacked
them during demonstration.
Police injured in petrol bomb attack
Police constable Tula Bahadur Magar got is jaw injured after Madhesi protestors hurled ‘petrol bomb’ at security personnel on Wednesday evening, according to District Police Office (DPO), Parsa.
Injured Magar is receiving treatment at Narayani Sub-regional Hospital of Birgunj, informed Superintendent of Police (SP) Rajubabu Shrestha.
He informed that police arrested Arun Yadav, a local, in connection with the attack on security personnel.
