location: Mahadevbesi
notes: Activists of the Tamsaling Nepal Rastriya Dal party burnt 1,100 copies of The Kathmandu Post and Kantipur at Mahadevbesi on the Prithvi Highway, after intercepting a circulation vehicle. The group had called an area bandh demanding the inclusion of the districts in the Tamsaling Autonomous State. Demonstrators vandalized a dozen vehicles for defying their strike. The police fired two rounds of bullets in the air and lobbed two tear gas shells to disperse the mob.
target_text: location: Mahadevbesi, fatalities: 0