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Two critically injured as YCL, locals clash in Damauli

Kantipur Report

TANAHU, June 4 - Two persons were seriously injured at Damauli in Tanahu district Wednesday after Maoist youth front Young Communist League (YCL) cadres clashed with locals.

The clash occurred at the district headquarters over the tender registration at the Department of Roads.

The injured have been identified as locals Ganesh Thapa and Bishwa Shrestha.

Both men had sustained serious injuries to their heads after being attacked with Khukuris by YCL cadres.

Thapa has been taken to Manipal Teaching hospital in Pokhara after the doctors at Damauli failed to treat him, while Shrestha has been undergoing treatment in Damauli, police said.

Agitating youths have forced shut the marketplace and obstructed the roads and have been chanting anti-YCL slogans, leaving the area tense.

Police have been trying to open the roads and markets

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