KATHMANDU, April 30: Nepal will give the families of the 13,000 people killed in the country’s decade-long civil war more than 1,500 dollars each in compensation, an official said on Wednesday.

“The government has decided to give one hundred thousand rupees to each family of those killed, irrespective of whether they were killed by the state or by the Maoists,” an officials said.

According to the Informal Sector Service Centre security forces killed around 8,300 people and the insurgent Maoists around 5,000 in the war that ended with a 2006 peace deal.

—AFP

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