KATMANDU, Nepal , April 09 , SPA -- Police opened fire on rampaging protesters in western Nepal on Wednesday, killing at least one of them, a day ahead of a landmark election to chart thecountry's political future, officials said. The protesters, enraged by the slaying of a candidate aday earlier, began smashing stores and vandalizing buses inthe mountainous Surkhet district, prompting police to fireat them with live ammunition, the area's police chief,Ram Kumar Khanal was quoted as saying by the Associated Press. The protesters were defying a curfew imposed in the areafollowing the killing Tuesday of the candidate, Khanalsaid. One of the protesters was killed Wenesday, he said. Voting in the area also was suspended, although the restof Nepal will hold the election as planned on Thursday. --SPA www.spa.gov.sa/544576