location: Kathmandu
notes: At least 40 persons were injured in a clash between police and agitating footpath vendors at Shanti Batika, Ratnapark, in Kathmandu. The clash erupted when police intervened the vehicular strike being enforced by the footpath vendors around Ratnapark. The footpath vendors were demonstrating the government's decision to lift their businesses from the footpaths without allocating any alternatives. Police were forced to resort to lathi charge after the demonstrators refused to call off the vehicular strike.
target_text: location: Kathmandu, fatalities: 0