Soldiers and police patrolled Nepal’s capital today as thousands of protesters from surrounding areas marched toward the city limits, where troops had orders to shoot on sight anyone breaking a curfew.

Soldiers and police patrolled Nepal’s capital Kathmandu today to enforce a shoot-on-sight curfew aimed to keep anti-monarchy protesters off the streets, but opposition leaders said they would still hold a planned rally.

SECURITY forces in a southern town shot into a crowd marching on the main highway to protest Nepal’s royal dictatorship yesterday, killing one and wounding five, a local administrator said.

Baton-wielding police beat journalists who were protesting against a media clampdown in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu today, as a general strike called by the opposition to demand the king’s departure shut down the Himalayan nation.