Dozens arrested as Nepalese protest fuel price hike

Nepalese students protesting at fuel price rises torched a parked bus and attacked other vehicles Wednesday during a strike in the capital Kathmandu, leading police to make nearly a hundred arrests. The city-wide strike, called by student unions to protest over an increase last week in the price of petrol, diesel, kerosene and aviation fuel, saw schools and colleges shut and most government vehicles stay off the roads. Some 2,000 police patrolled the streets, detaining protesters as they tried to enforce the strike by stopping vehicles. In one incident demonstrators stopped a car and forced the two men inside it to step out before setting fire to the vehicle, police said, according to AFP.