Incident Reports

The irate protesters torched traffic police beat on fire

2018-01-18

Sudurpashchim, Doti, Dipayal Silgadi

Dipayal remained tense throughout the day today. The irate protesters torched a motorbike (Ba 1 Ba 7339) belonging to the District Forest Office and also set the Pipalla-based traffic police beat on fire. Residents of Doti have been staging demonstrations since this morning after the government declared temporary provincial capital against their liking. They have been demanding that Doti be declared the provincial capital of Province 7. The government on Wednesday, however, declared Kailali’s Dhangadhi as the provincial capital of Province 7. प्रदेश नम्बर ७ को अस्थायी राजधानी दीपायलमा हुनुपर्ने माग गर्दै आन्दोलन गरेका प्रदर्शनकारीले जिल्ला ट्राफिक प्रहरी कार्यालय डोटीको ट्राफिक पोस्टमा आगजनी गरेका छन् । दीपायल कुलपाटेमा रहेको ट्राफिक प्रहरी पोस्टमा उनीहरुले आगो लगाएका हुन् । जस्ताले बारेर बनाइएको घरमा राखिएको ट्राफिक पोस्ट जलेर पुरै जलेर नष्ट भएको छ । सरकारले प्रदेश ७ को अस्थायी राजधानी धनगढीमा तोकेको छ ।
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Onesided
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Arson
Weapons Fire , Fire
Primary Cause Contestation over Constitution and federal restructuring
Actor 1 - Number of people 100
Actor 1 - Affiliations Protesters/demonstrators , Protesters/demonstrators
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people NA
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Police
Actor 2 - Youth na
Total damaged Buildings 1
Totally damaged Vehicles 1
Severely damaged Vehicles 1
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