Police have killed two men for violating a curfew that was clamped on
the capital Kathmandu after mobs torched a mosque and rampaged through
the streets. Protesters on Wednesday stormed inside the city's main
mosque, set furniture and carpets on fire and tore up a copy of the
Quran, before being driven out by police. Chanting "Down with Islam" to
protest the killing of 12 Nepalis in Iraq, they rampaged through the
city's streets and fought running battles with police. Police
clamped an indefinite curfew and later fired on a group of people who
gathered in downtown Kathmandudespite the ban, killing one man, an
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