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Nepal election candidate killed in violence
A candidate and six other people were killed in violence ahead of elections in Nepal, officials said on Wednesday.
- Agencies
- Published: 08:12 April 9, 2008
Kathmandu: A candidate and six other people were killed in violence ahead of elections in Nepal, officials said on Wednesday.
Thursday's elections will produce an assembly meant to write a new constitution, abolish a 240-year-old monarchy and turn Nepal into a republic.
"We have recovered six bodies from the site of a violent incident in Dang district," Home Ministry spokesman Modraj Dotel said about a clash in west Nepal late on Tuesday.
One candidate from the Communist UML party was killed in another incident in nearby Surkhet district, Dotel said.
The latest deaths take to at least 10 the number of people killed in election-related violence so far.
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