An Indian national was killed and two others were injured when the Nepal Armed Police Force, responsible for border security, opened fire on a group during a clash at a border point near Sitamarhi in Bihar Friday morning.
Senior police officers of Nepal and Bihar and the Sashastra Seema Bal called it a local incident and said it had nothing to do with the border row between Delhi and Kathmandu over territorial claims to Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura in Uttarakhand — Nepal’s House of Representatives will vote Saturday on a Bill seeking to include the areas in the country’s new map.
There are conflicting accounts of what led to the firing in which Vikesh Rai, a 25-year-old from Sonbarsa in Sitamarhi, was killed and two others, Umesh Ram and Uday Sharma, also from Sonbarsa, were injured and later admitted to a hospital in Sitamarhi.
Bihar police said the incident took place at 8.15 am on the Nepal side of Pillar Number 319/24 near Janaki Nagar, Lalbandi Durbar under the Sonbarsa police station.
