Kathmandu, April 15 -- UML on Monday said that former king Gyanendra Shah should be held accountable for the deadly riots during a pro-monarchy demonstration in Kathmandu on March 28.

Two people, including a video journalist, were killed, scores suffered injuries, private and public properties, including buildings of media houses, were vandalised, and a supermarket was ransacked when the demonstration spiralled into chaos that day.

"The arson, vandalism and looting was carried out in an organised way at Tinkune [the epicentre of violence]," UML's Deputy General Secretary Pradeep Gyawali said after the party's secretariat meeting on Monday.

Gyawali added that such a riot cannot be justified as an expression of people's frustration.

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