Incident Reports

Stone pelted at local representatives

2019-05-14

Locals of Sunwal municipality ward 7 and 8 pelted stones at local representatives over the issue of construction of a hospital. A police vehicle and a car were damaged and Spokesperson of the municipality, Krishna Devkota, was injured in the incident. 

The locals in the leadership of Basantaraj Dahal and Nilkantha, ward chairpersons of ward 7 and 8 staged a demonstration protesting the plan to build a hospital in a different place. According to the initial plan, the hospital would be built in ward no. 8.

Police were trying to escort Municipality Chairperson Bhim Bahadur Thapa, Vice-Chairperson Dadhiram Aryal and Spokesperson Devkota when the locals pelted stones at them.  A police vehicle and a ward chairperson's car were damaged in the incident.

Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Onesided
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Vandalism
Secondary Form Assault (large group)
Weapons Blunt weapon
Primary Cause Other governance issues
Actor 1 - Number of people 15
Actor 1 - Affiliations Protesters/demonstrators
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people 6
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Local authorities (incl VDC, district, gov. line agencies at local level except education and health)
Actor 2 - Youth noyouth
Total Injured 1
Totally damaged Vehicles 2
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