KATHMANDU: Nepalese police have arrested a politician and two other men over the fatal drive-by shooting of a candidate slated to run in next month’s national elections, an official said.
The killing was the first since candidates began campaigning earlier this month for only the second national polls to be held in the impoverished Himalayan nation since a decade-long civil war ended in 2006.
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