Information About Incident 30601-54967-127155 in Kapilbastu Nepal

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Chairman of the Democratic Madhesi Front, Mohit Khan was shot dead by unidentified extremists at Birpur-5 village in the Kapilvastu district on September16-morning, according to Kantipuronline.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Birpur-5 Kapilvastu
• Matched District: Kapilbastu
• Actgroup: kill
• Actor: by unidentified extremists at Birpur-5 village in the Kapilvastu district - morning
• Subject: Chairman of the Democratic Madhesi Front , Mohit Khan

Context

This data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.

Chairman of the Democratic Madhesi Front, Mohit Khan was shot dead by unidentified extremists at Birpur-5 village in the Kapilvastu district on September16-morning, according to Kantipuronline. Subsequently to the killing, violence gripped different areas of the district in which four other persons were killed. The violent mob consisting of Khan s supporters attacked and killed Hasan Puri, a constable with the Armed Police Force (APF), and a driver whose name is yet to be known, at Chandrauta. Hira Mani Kharel of Ganeshpur Village Development Committee (VDC) was also killed in the violence. Another unidentified body was found in Chadrauta bazaar (market) on September 17 (today), the police said. Some of the demonstrators claimed that the Maoist cadres were involved in Khan s killing. However, Maoists Kapilvastu district secretary, Sanjiv Kumar, denied his outfit s involvement.

The original source are newspaper clippings and extracts collected by the South Asian Terrorism Portal.

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