Wednesday, April 19 2006 11:07 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Kathmandu: The royal government of Nepal today (Apr 19, 2006) imposed a daylong curfew in a western town and gave security forces shoot-at-sight orders as a woman agitator hit during clashes with police succumbed to injuries taking the death toll related to crackdown on protests to seven.

The state-run Radio Nepal's announcement said the curfew would be imposed in the city of Pokhara, about 200 kilometers west of Kathmandu.

Anyone violating the curfew would be shot, the Radio said as the pro-democracy agitation entered the 14th day today.

The order was imposed after at least 50 agitators were injured in firing and baton charge in the western town of Pokhara yesterday where thousands participated in protests calling for King Gyanendra's ouster.

However, demonstrators defied the government's daytime curfew and launched massive rallies. School teachers and civil society members participated in the pro-democracy rally, party sources said.

Meanwhile, a woman hit by a tear gas shell fired by police to disperse thousands of protesters in southwest Nepal has died, party sources said.

The woman was protesting in Nepalgunj, southwest of Kathmandu, yesterday when she was hit. She succumbed to injuries last night.

She is the seventh person to be killed during the two-week long agitation.