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At least one protestor was killed and 12 others injured when security forces opened fire at a peaceful protest demonstration of nearly two thousand people in Nijgadh of Bara district today.

Hiralal Gautam, 25, of Nijgadh died while being rushed to a hospital in Birgunj, reported our correspondent Shankar Acharya.

With Gautam’s death, the number of people who have lost their lives in the ongoing movement for democracy has reached six.

Similarly, four protestors were injured when Royal Nepalese Army soldiers opened fire at a group of protestors in Chitwan district this afternoon.

According to reports, the soldiers opened fire as a group of protestors tried to stop a truck carrying goods. The soldiers were escorting the truck.

Two protestors were injured when police fired rubber bullets at a demonstration in Chabahil of Kathmandu today.

Pro-democracy protesters in the capital today defied the government prohibitory orders and demonstrated in the restricted areas.

Protests continued for several hours at Gongabu, Chabahil and Balkhu.

Meanwhile, civil servants today demonstrated inside the Singha Durbar premises.

Women from Sankhamul and Buddhanagar today took to the streets drumming dinner plates as a symbolic support to the SPA demonstrations. Similar rallies of women were taken out at Anamnagar and Maitidevi.

In Patan, the SPA took out rallies appealing to the city dwellers to join the pro-democracy demonstrations. The rally passed through Patandhoka, Lagankhel, Natole and Pulchowk.

Police arrested at least a dozen women who took out a rally demanding democracy and end to autocracy at Bhotahity. They have been kept at Mahendra Police Club.

Employees of Education Department hold sit-in

Meanwhile, employees of the Higher Secondary Education Council and Department of Education today halted office work to stage a sit-in protest showing solidarity with the ongoing pro-democracy movement.

Supporting the ongoing SPA agitation, employees of the Higher Secondary Education Council, Education Human Resource Development Center and Formal Education Center and CTEVT staged a sit-in demonstration in front of the Education Department. 

In the meantime, a protest gathering of University Teachers’ Association of Central Campus, Kirtipur, appealed to the security personnel to back the SPA-launched movement.

Employees of the Vice Chancellor’s Office of Tribhuvan University and the Office of the Controller of Examinations also locked up their offices to express solidarity with the ongoing movement.

SC employees join movement

Employees of the Supreme Court (SC) also held demonstrations in support of the ongoing mass movement. Binding black arm bands, the SC employees staged a sit-in protest in the premises of the Court for an hour this afternoon. The protest was also observed by joint secretary-level officials.

Similar pro-democracy demonstrations were held by employees of the Agricultural Development Bank and Transport Management Office.

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