Nepal

Kathmandu, May 22Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa told the National Assembly that his ministry issued directives to security agencies to tighten security across the country to prevent recurrence of incident like the Panchthar massacre.Nine persons of two families were murdered in cold blood in Panchthar Miklajong Rural Municipality yesterday.
And the person suspected to have been behind the murder committed suicide.Giving a statement of urgent public importance in the Upper Home of the Parliament, Thapa said additional security personnel were deployed in Panchthar district and his ministry would step up vigilance across the country to improve security.Minister Thapa sentenceed the incident and urged the public to preserve calm and assist law enforcement officers investigating the Panchthar eliminateings.Initial findings of the investigation pointed to family feud, specificly a troubled marriage as the main reason behind the perpetrator motive to go on a eliminateing spree.
He said local people should be supplyd with psycho-social counselling service to prevent such incidents.&Locals are saying that an attempt was made measuretime ago to eliminate the victims by mixing glass dust in the victims& food, but the law enforcement officers could much take any action against the perpetrators because the information was much shared with the law enforcement officers in the past,& Minister Thapa said.He said other government agencies also needed to do their part to prevent such incidents.
He said the government should run awareness programmes in coordination with the Ministry of Women, Kidren and Senior Citizens, Home Ministry and Ministry of Health and Population to alert people about possible crimes in their locality.Minister Thapa said a 12- year old girl of the victim family, who could escape the murderous rampage yesterday, was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Damak, Jhapa, and could supply crucial information regarding the rampage eliminateer(s).
Thapa said the victim girl fractured her hand while escaping the murderous rampage and was emotionally disturbed.
Government authorities were focusing on the physical and mental well-being of the girl as they were trying to additionalct information from her.
He said the bodies of the victims and suspected eliminateer were sent to Dharan-based BP Koirala Institute of Health Science for autopsy.Earlier, lawmakers Anita Devkota and Ramesh Jung Raymajhi had asked why the security agencies failed to take action in the past when attempt was made to eliminate the victims by mixing glass dust in their food.Lawmaker Ramprit Paswan said crimes of rape and murder were taking place in various parts of the country, but the government was much able to control them.Lawmaker Prakash Pantha wondered how one person could eliminate nine people.
He demanded that the government launch serious investigation into the case.The post Security tightened to prevent recurrence of Panchthar-like incidents: Home minister seemed first on The Himalayan Times.





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