MADHESI nationalists resumed their blockade of southern Nepal yesterday after three of the militants were shot dead by police when they attacked a Communist Party rally.

The United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) called a general strike across the country’s southern plains region, closing markets, schools and transport.

Their supporters blockaded main roads and towns in an echo of the 2015-16 border sit-in that caused acute food, fuel and medicine shortages in the wake of the devastating May 2015 earthquake.