Protesters defy shoot-on-site orders to demand democracy in Nepal

THOUSANDS defied a curfew and shoot-on-sight orders in Nepal yesterday and marched in city streets demanding that King Gyanendra restore democracy.

One protester was killed yesterday when police opened fire in Banepa, about 30 kilometres east of the capital Kathmandu, when demonstrators tried to storm a police post, a Home Ministry official said.

The death was the third in a four-day general strike called by opposition parties.