Overview

• Local media reported double‑digit fatalities and hundreds injured during clashes, while authorities have not released a consolidated toll.
• Protesters breached restricted zones at the parliament complex in New Baneshwar as police used tear gas, water cannon, rubber bullets and live rounds.
• The Kathmandu district office extended curfews to key government areas including Singha Durbar, the president’s residence and the prime minister’s residence, and the army secured approaches to parliament.
• Demonstrations spread beyond the capital to cities such as Pokhara, Biratnagar, Bharatpur, Butwal, Itahari and Damak, with reports of police firing outside Kathmandu.
• Home minister Ramesh Lekhak resigned, according to party and media accounts, as Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli defended the shutdown as enforcing sovereignty and compliance with Nepali law.