Nepal police fired into a crowd of demonstrators on Monday, killing one person as fresh protests erupted in the country's southern plains over a new draft constitution. The incident in Parsa district, 95 kilometres (60 miles) south of Kathmandu, came a week after violent clashes in south-western Nepal saw eight police and an 18-month-old boy killed, prompting the government to deploy troops and announce an indefinite curfew.
In the latest round of clashes, hundreds of demonstrators belonging to the Madhesi ethnic minority attacked government offices and set fire to a police station, an official said.
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