Incident Reports

Tear gas fired to the demonstrators by Banepa police

2018-10-01

When Banepa Municipality disseminated the information to break down the houses built by encroachment of Araniko Highway, chaos has occurred. To control the chaos Banepa police fired 3 round of tear gas. 

While trying to unblock the highway, police and local people of Sangha had clash. More than dozens of people are injured by the incident. Guru Adhikari, heah of  Division Road Office, Bhaktapur said unauthorized houses built in the Araniko Highway's 9 Kilometers long road of Sangha to Dhulikhel will be taken down within a week.  

Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Twosided
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Group Clash
Weapons None
Primary Cause Access/control of development infrastructure (roads, bridges)
Actor 1 - Number of people 25
Actor 1 - Affiliations Citizen/Individuals
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people 20
Actor 2 - Affiliation Police
Actor 2 - Youth na
National/Online Media

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