Overview

• Hundreds of protesters stormed the Kathmandu parliament complex and set the main building on fire, according to the legislature’s secretariat.
• Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli stepped down after days of unrest, following the earlier resignation of the interior minister and other cabinet members.
• At least 19 protesters were reported dead and hundreds injured, with Amnesty International citing the use of live ammunition and doctors reporting head and chest gunshot wounds.
• Mob attacks targeted political figures and homes, including a blaze at ex–prime minister Jhalanath Khanal’s residence that relatives said led to his wife’s death, while senior leaders such as Sher Bahadur Deuba and Foreign Minister Arzu Rana Deuba were assaulted and Finance Minister Bishnu Paudel was beaten and forced into a river.
• The government lifted the blocks on 26 social platforms but protests continued; Kathmandu’s airport was shut and military helicopters evacuated officials as the Rastriya Swatantra Party’s lawmakers resigned en masse and the UN and Amnesty called for an independent probe.