Protests in Kathmandu over fuel price hike
Activists torched dozens of vehicles and attacked a senior politician in Kathmandu on Saturday in protest against an increase in prices of petroleum products, police and witnesses said.
Police used batons to break up protests as hundreds of people also burned tyres and stopped traffic in the city, a police officer said.
Dozens of protesters threw rocks and broke window panes of the home of Madhav Kumar Nepal, head of the Communist Party of Nepal (UML), the second biggest group in the multi-party government. But the leader was unhurt, his family said.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Activists in the city, home to 1.5 million people, demanded the multi-party government - formed in April after King Gyanendra was forced to relinquish power - roll back the increase which was announced late on Friday.
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