Police have arrested four suspects for their alleged involvement in the Monday's Kailali carnage in which nine people including a minor were ruthlessly murdered. According to DIG Ram Kumar Khanal, Chief of Far-Western Regional Police Office, police will carry out an investigation into their alleged involvement in the incident and they will be charged under murder case if found guilty. Those killed by the irate protestors include SSP Laxman Neupane, Inspector duo Balram Bista and Keshab Bohara, constables Lokendra Chand and Laxman Khadka. Likewise, Armed Police Force (APF) Head Constable Lalit Saud, and constable Ram Bihari Chaudhary were also killed in the clash.

update.......... Five held for Tikapur violence Kailali Police today arrested five persons for their alleged involvement in the killing of seven police personnel, including Senior Superintendent of Police Laxman Neupane, and a two-year-old boy in Tikapur, Kailali, yesterday. Mohan Chapagain, who replaced Raj Kumar Shrestha as Kailali CDO today, said the police nabbed Raj Kumar Kathariya, Harinarayan Chaudhary, Dil Bahadur Chaudhary, Ram Kumar Kathariya and Sundarlal Kathariya of Munuwa from their houses. Chapagain said the detainees were kept at the district police office and investigation was underway. A meeting of the district security committee held today declared nine VDCs and Tikapur municipality riot-hit zones and deployed the Nepali Army to bring the situation under control. Kailali’s Assistant CDO Uday Bahadur Singh said security had been tightened at Tikapur, Manowa, Johsipur, Durgauli, Dhansingh, Naryanpur, Tathariya, Khilad, Bhajan and Bahauniya after declaring these places riot-hit zones. DAO lifted the curfew in Dhangadi and Attariya but said the curfew would be clamped from 11:00 am till 6:00 pm tomorrow.