Army pressed into service as two dead in violent Nepal pro-monarchy rally

Record ID: 1986468

  • Title: Army pressed into service as two dead in violent Nepal pro-monarchy rally
  • Date: 28th March 2025
  • Summary: KATHMANDU, NEPAL (MARCH 28, 2025) (ANI- No use India) SECURITY PERSONNEL GATHERED/PROTESTERS RAISING SLOGANS VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS RAISING SLOGANS RIOT POLICE RUNNING RIOT POLICE WALKING WITH SHIELD AS PROTESTERS PELT STONES PROTESTERS THROWING STONES AS RIOT POLICE RETREAT AND FIRE TEAR GAS SHELLS PROTESTERS PELTING STONES AT SECURITY PERSONNEL TEAR GAS SHELL GOING OFF ON
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  • Keywords: Kathmandu Nepal clashes curfew monarchy security forces violence water cannon
  • Location: KATHMANDU, NEPAL
  • City: KATHMANDU, NEPAL
  • Country: Nepal
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Conflicts/War/Peace
  • Reuters ID: LVA001M24DMQ7
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Nepali riot police lobbed tear gas, fired water cannon and used rattan sticks on Friday (March 28) to break up a protest rally demanding the restoration of constitutional monarchy, and at least two people were killed in the violence, police said.
    Authorities said they had to use force to stop thousands of protesters breaking into an area where demonstrations and protest rallies are banned, and they later imposed a curfew in the affected area to stem further escalation of the violence.
    The two people killed included one of the protesters and a journalist who was covering the rally, a police spokesman, Dinesh Kumar Acharya, told Reuters. Avenues TV said one of its journalists had died when a house he was in was set ablaze.
    Another Nepal police spokesman, Shekhar Khanal, said protesters had set fire to a private house and a vehicle, adding that 17 people including three police personnel were injured. Three protesters are in police custody, he said.
    A separate anti-monarchy rally also took place in the Nepali capital on Friday but passed peacefully.
    A specially elected assembly scrapped the 239-year-old monarchy in 2008, under an accord that ended a Maoist insurgency which had killed 17,000 people in 1996-2006 and turned Nepal into a secular, federal republic from a Hindu kingdom.
    The last king of the Himalayan nation, 77-year-old Gyanendra, has lived with his family in a private house in Kathmandu as a commoner since being toppled.
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