District representatives of rights groups Informal Sector Service Center (Insec) and Advocacy Forum reached the spot Saturday morning. [break]
A fact-finding team from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has left Nepalgunj for Surkhet. Another team of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is about to reach Banspani. Earlier on Friday, a team of media persons arrived.
NA personnel deployed at Bardiya National Park had shot dead three Dalit women -- Amrita BK, 33, Devisara BK, 35, and her daughter Chandra Kala BK, 12, on the night of March 10. The three had entered the park to collect barks of Kaulo trees.
Meanwhile, relatives have refused to go to Bardiya District Hospital for receiving the bodies of the three. According to locals, NA has pressed one Krishna Bahadur BK, who has been detained following the killing, for receiving the dead bodies on behalf of their relatives. The relatives of those killed have accused NA personnel of murdering the three after capture.
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