Kathmandu stays under curfew

KATHMANDU: Two days after protesters ransacked Muslim places of worship, businesses and media houses, Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba promised aid to the victims. He also ordered an investigation into the destruction.
"I have directed investigation committees to probe into the act of vandalism and violence," Deuba told reporters, touring Kantipur Publications and Space Time Publications, two media houses damaged by the rioters on Wednesday.
"The culprits will be brought to book." He then made a similar tour of the 12 Takiya Kashmiri Jame Masjid in the heart of Kathmandu, talking to Muslim worshippers and priests. The Prime Minister promised aid to the damaged mosque. The mosque narrowly escaped destruction on Wednesday, but furnitures and papers were looted and burnt by the demonstrators.
Fearing more reprisal attacks over the killing of 12 Nepalese in Iraq, authorities placed Kathmandu under tight curfew again.