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Protester shot dead in Nepal
 Police officers beat up an opposition party supporter in Katmandu. RELATEDYOUR E-MAIL ALERTSKATMANDU Nepal (CNN) -- Nepalese police shot and killed a protester Sunday in the Banepa region when pro-democracy protesters tried to storm a police post, a government official said. The official, from the Nepalese Home Ministry, said four Maoist demonstrators were arrested. Meanwhile, organizers of the demonstrations -- in which thousands have defied a curfew and shoot-on-sight orders to spill into the streets of the capital, Katmandu -- announced that they will not stop until King Gyanendra is gone. Gyanendra seized power from interim Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, who the king said had failed to quell a Maoist insurgency that has killed at least 13,000 people since 1996. The rebels, who are fighting to form a communist state, are supporting the political campaign to oust Gyanendra and install a democratic government. Also Sunday, a woman who was watching violent pro-democracy protests from her apartment in Kathmandu died, one day after she was accidentally shot in the chest by police, a hospital doctor said. Two demonstrators were shot to death by security forces in other cities. (Full story) The woman, 32-year-old Pulsi Chhetri, was watching the protests from a veranda Saturday with two sisters, who were injured, the doctor said. It was not immediately known how they were hurt. Sunday marked the fourth day of nationwide protests called by major political parties to demand that King Gyanendra give up the power he seized in February 2005. Fires burned in the streets, and youths threw rocks at police, who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. More than 750 protesters have been arrested since the protests began. A demonstrator was fatally shot by security forces Saturday in the Nepalese town of Bharatpur, and another protester was killed in Pokhara. Senior International Correspondent Satinder Bindra and journalist Sumnima Udas contributed to this report. 
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