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Bloody clashes in Nepal

Email this storyPrint this story 7:15AM Friday March 23, 2007

Hundreds of riot police patrolled two border towns in southeast Nepal to enforce curfews after bloody clashes between Maoists and an ethnic group left at least 26 people dead.

The clashes, over the selection of the same venue for public meetings, between former rebels and the Madhesi People's Rights Forum in Gaur, 80km south of Kathmandu, were the deadliest this year.

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