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Blockade fuels prices in Kathmandu

KATHMANDU, FEB. 15. A road blockade by Maoist rebels ground traffic in Nepal to a near-halt for a fourth consecutive day today, sending produce prices soaring in Kathmandu even as a defiant King Gyanendra moved to tighten his grip on power.

Officials at a checkpost south of the capital, the main entry and exit point into the Kathmandu valley, said that while some vehicles were leaving under security force escort, none was arriving.

``No vehicles have entered the valley from long distance routes this morning,'' said the official, while the state-run English daily, The Rising Nepal, said some 110 vehicles had arrived in Kathmandu and 190 had left the capital yesterday.

Officials said that on a normal day, 500 buses, 500 to 600 trucks and around 170 other vehicles entered Kathmandu.

Intensifying their anti-terror campaign, Nepalese security forces today shot dead a dozen Maoists in three separate incidents. — PTI, AFP

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