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Nepal protests result in 19 dead

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September 9, 2025
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As many as 19 people in two cities in Nepal have died in the country’s worst unrest in decades, according to authorities. Police in the capital fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters who had attempted to storm the parliament following corruption and social media shutdowns.

Most of the protesters were young. They had forced their way into the parliament complex in Kathmandu by breaking through a barricade, according to a local official, and set an ambulance on fire and threw objects at riot police who were had been guarding the legislature.

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“The police have been firing indiscriminately,” one protester told the ANI news agency. The police, they said, “fired bullets which missed me but hit a friend who was standing behind me. He was hit in the hand.”

Over 100 people, including 28 police officers, were given medical treatment for their injuries according to police officer Shekhar Khanal who spoke to Reuters. The protesters were taking injured people to hospital on motorcycles.

Last week, the government blocked access to a number of social media platforms including Meta. Around 90% of the 30 million people in Nepal use the internet and this shut down has let to anger among the populace, especially the younger generations.

Officials say the ban was imposed because the platform had not registered with authorities in a crackdown on misuse. This includes false social media accounts that can be used to spread hate speech and fake news or commit fraud.

Two of the 19 people died after protests in the city of Itahari in eastern Nepal had turned violent, according to police.

Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak resigned from the government, taking “moral responsibility” for the violence, according to another government minister told Reuters. The Prime Minister, K.P. Sharma Oli, called for an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss the unrest which began after thousands of young people, many of them in school or college uniforms, came out to protest.

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