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Nepal`s former prime ministers under house arrest

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

New Delhi, Feb 5, IRNA -- Taking the military takeover of the King 
of Nepal to extreme ends, authorities in Kathmandu today arrested 
former prime minister and Nepali Congress founder and leader Krishna 
Prasad Bhattarai and Nepali Democratic Congress President Sher 
Bahadur Deuba. 
Former prime ministers Surya Bahadur Thapa and Lokendra Bahadur 
Chand have also been put under house arrest. 
According to the Nepali newspaper `The Kathmandu Post`, former 
deputy prime minister Bharat Mohan Adhikari, Badri Prasad Mandal, 
president of the Nepal Sadbhavana Party (Mandal), Pashupati Rana, 
president of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Amik Serchan, president 
of the People`s Front of Nepal, have also been placed under house 
arrest. 
There are unconfirmed reports that dozens of students and youths 
were injured in clashes with security forces in Prithvinarayan campus 
in Pokhara hours after the King seized power. 
Reports also suggest arson was committed on the streets of 
Kathmandu after news of the palace coup was made public. 
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