Kathmandu, April 15 -- A wrong number call spiralled into insults, a planned meeting and a sudden street clash that ended with two men dead in Lalitpur's Mangalbazar last week.

What began as a simple misdial quickly turned into a fatal confrontation between two groups, escalating within minutes into knife violence that killed 33-year-old Sumit Nembang and his 25-year-old brother Sirjat Nembang, originally from Jhapa and currently residing in Lalitpur.

Police said the call by Sumit was intended for someone else but landed on Sanjeev Nepali's phone after a wrong digit. The trouble began when the caller mentioned another person's name.

"He insulted me, and I got angry," Nepali told police. "I told him to dial properly and not just pick ra...