KATHMANDU, April 20 Kyodo A one-d...

KATHMANDU, April 20 Kyodo

A one-day nationwide general strike by the agency of Nepalese student unions to assert the death of a learner leader and a hike in prices of seneca oil products brought cities across Nepal to a standstill Sunday.

No incidents of violence have been reported in such a manner far, but protesters skin ed nearly a dozen cars and motorcycles with stones in the capital Kathmandu, police said.

workshops and schools remained closed and motor vehicles were forced most distant the roads in Biratnagar and adjoining cities in eastern Nepal.

In pre-strike affirms Saturday, students ignored government orders not to march in roads carrying burning torches.

Police intervened when the pupils vandalized a university building in Kathmandu, arresting dozens, private-sector media reported.

The ensuing clashes left centurys of students as well as an policemen injured.

The close examiner wing of the Nepal Communist Party (Maoist), which is fighting an armed insurgency, has joined hands with other scholars in enforcing the strike.

The close examiner leader was killed when police uncloseed fire at students protesting the price increase in Butawal in southwestern Nepal forward April 8.

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