The government will form a high-level commission to investigate the Balkumari incident that saw two youths dead.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Sunday directed the Ministry of Home Affairs to table a proposal for the formation of the commission at the next Cabinet meeting.

According to the prime minister’s secretariat, the commission will be headed by a former judge and a meeting of the Council of Ministers scheduled for Monday will form the commission.

On Friday, the Home Ministry formed a three-member committee to investigate the incident. The committee led by Deputy Inspector General Lalmani Acharya includes Lalitpur Assistant Chief District Officer Amar Dip Sunuwar and Superintendent of Police Basu Sigdel of the National Investigation Department as members.

At least two people died in clashes between the protesters, who were barred from taking part in the Korean language test for employment in South Korea, and police on Friday at Balkumari in Lalitpur.

Police said that protesters—Sujan Raut, 23, and Birendra Shah of around the same age—who were injured in clashes with the police, died in hospitals.

The protesters also torched the car of Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Prakash Jwala on the road.

The protest started after those who had earlier failed the language proficiency test for shipbuilding jobs took to the streets demanding they be allowed to appear in a separate language test for the manufacturing sector.

A Cabinet meeting on Saturday decided to provide Rs1million in compensation to each family of those killed during the protest.