RAUTAHAT: Cadres of the United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) torched the district party office of the CPN-UML on Thursday.

The cadres set the office on fire by using kerosene. Official documents and furniture were destroyed in the fire , police said.

Police informed that the fire broke out after the cadres threw a plastic bottle filled with kerosene inside the office room from window.

According to the District Police Office, Rautahat, they are searching for the assailants.

The incident site is about 100 metres north of the district police office. Police, however, reached there an-hour-and-a-half later when the fire had died down on its own.

Meanwhile, the body of one Raj Kishor Thakur (24) of Mathiya-6, who was killed in police firing during the agitation on Tuesday, is still kept at the District Hospital, Gaur.

Though preparations are underway to handover the body to his family members, the body has been kept at the hospital for the third consecutive day after family members did not come to collect the body, DSP Sudhir Raj Shahi, Chief at the District Police Office, Rautahat informed.

According to Coordinator of the Tarai Madhesi Democratic Party and District Chairman Babu Lal Sah, leaders of the UDMF have put forward five-point demand including Thakur be declared a martyr, his family given due relief and a government job to one of his family members among others.

On the 13th day of the bandh enforced by the Front, market places and educational and financial institutions remained shut while vehicular movement came to a halt in Garuda, Ganga Pipara, Samanpur, Shivanagar, Shukdev chowk and Jhunkhunawa, besides the district headquarters Gaur.

As the situation was better today, the administration had deployed relatively fewer security personnel here today.

In the wake of the declaration of the district as riot-hit zone, the agitators have taken to the interiors of the district with their demonstrations and rallies. In riot-hit places, gatherings of five or more people, miking and rallies have been prohibited. Today’s arson, however, has shown that Gaur continues to remain restive.

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