Indefinite curfew has been clamped in Beldangi, Jhapa Monday after a clash that ensued between police and the agitating Bhutanese refugees – following the death of a refugee in a clash with the police personnel Sunday.According to reports, at least seventeen persons including eleven policemen were injured today as clashes continued between the refugees and the police personnel.
Defying the crew, protesting refugees have continued their demonstrations.
Although the police has been firing shots in the air and shooting tear gas shells to disperse the crowd, the agitators have already marched in front of the Armed Police base camp. The police force, overwhelmed by the size of the crowd, has been unable to check the crowd's movement.
Although the local administration and police had called the agitating side for talks, the later had declined the offer.
Nara Pati Dhungel, 17, was killed Sunday when police opened fire in ‘self-defence’ after the refugees attacked a police team that had gone to the camp after receiving information that refugees were engaged in a fight.
Earlier, a clash had ensued between the police and the refugees when the former had gone to rescue Beldangi-2 camp secretary Hari Adhikari Bagale—who had been taken in to custody by the refugees for making controversial remarks in favour of resettlement in a third country that left one dead.
The agitators are also demanding that Bagale—who is currently taking shelter in the Armed Police base camp—be handed over to them.
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