KATHMANDU: Nearly 200 demonstrators were arrested in Nepal on Friday as they torched vehicles and forced schools, shops and businesses to shut down in protest over government plans to bring in a new constitution.
Police said they had arrested 188 Maoist activists over the violence and deployed heavy security during the first national strike since a devastating quake hit the country in April.
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