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Second curfew empties streets of Nepalese capital

A second curfew has emptied the streets of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, amid fears of further violent protests over the deaths of most members of the royal family last week.

Two people died, and more than three dozen received bullet wounds in clashes with police yesterday.

The country's new monarch, King Gyanendra, has announced an inquiry into the massacre, but the move has already run into trouble .. as Jonathan Harley reports from Kathmandu.

With speed of the essence to defuse Nepal's building crisis King Gyanendra said the commission's findings will be handed down within three days, but Madhav Kumar Nepal, leader of the main Opposition Marxist party says he won't sit on the commission because it wasn't set up in accordance with the constitution. It's a serious setback for the new King who's under growing pressure to explain the royal family deaths. But he has received some good news. His wife, now Queen Kumar, while injured in Friday's massacre is improving in hospital satisfactorily, according to state run radio. Jonathan Harley, Kathmandu.

6/06/01 8:06:00 | ABC Radio Australia News

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