51 people, including Indian, died in recent anti-government protest in Nepal: Police
13/09/2025
Kathmandu, Sep 12: At least 51 people, including an Indian woman, have died in this week's violent protest across Nepal that forced Prime Minister K P Sh-arma Oli's resignation, police said on Friday as new details of the extent of damages emerged.
Senior Superintendent of Police Ramesh Thapa, who is co-spokesperson for Nepal police, said an Indian woman was among the casualties that also included three policemen, The Kathmandu Post newspaper reported. At least 36 bodies are at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj, where post-mortems began on Friday, it said. The Indian woman was identified as Rajesh Devi Gola, 55, from Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad. She fell to her death while trying to escape from her Kathmandu hotel that was set on fire by the protesters on Tuesday.
Her husband, Ramveer Singh Saini, said he managed to jump out of the room's window and narrowly survived but his wife slipped from a curtain he was using to lower her down. She was rushed to a hospital for treatment but died on the way due to excessive bleeding. Meanwhile, the three policemen were killed by a mob in the Koteshwor area of Kathmandu on Tuesday.
Police said 17 bodies were recovered from different parts of the country on Thursday and Friday. At least 19 people, mostly students, were killed when police opened fire at the Parliament building in Kathmandu when the protests under the banner of 'Gen Z' launched their agitation on Monday.
Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli quit on Tuesday shortly after hundreds of agitators entered his office demanding his resignation over the deaths during Monday's protest. The ban on social media was lifted Monday night. The violence continued even after Oli's resignation, with protesters setting fire to the Parliament, the President's Office, the PM's residence, government buildings, political parties' offices and homes of senior leaders. Meanwhile, many of the bodies were cremated at Aryaghat of Pashupatinath Temple near the bank of Bagmatairiver on Friday afternoon.
Nearly 1,700 people sustained injuries during the protests. Of them, around 1,000 have returned home after recovery, police said. Nepal's police force is gradually resuming operations in the Kathmandu Valley, with police stations and posts that were vandalised or set ablaze slowly coming back into operation, officials said.
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