Incident Reports

Two vehicles used by CPN-UML and Nepali Congress for election campaign torched by unidentified group in Surkhet

2022-05-07

Karnali, Surkhet, Birendranagar, Ward 6

An unidentified group torched two vehicle being used for election campaign by Nepali Congress and CPN-UML in Birendranagar of Surkhet. According to police the vehicles, a Scorpio bearing plate number Ba 14 Cha 6831 belonging to Nepali Congress and and a Minibus bearing plate number Karnali Pradesh 02-001 Kha 0069 being used for the purpose of election campaign by CPN-UML were torched by the unidentified group on Saturday morning. Both vehicles sustained substantial damage. Police are investigating the incident.

Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Onesided
Collective / Interpersonal Interpersonal
Primary Form Arson
Weapons Fire
Primary Cause Election-related incident
Actor 1 - Number of people n/a
Actor 1 - Affiliations Unclear
Actor 1 - Youth na
Actor 2 - Number of people n/a
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Nepali Congress and affiliated org Left Alliance (CPN-MC, UML & others)
Actor 2 - Youth unknown
Totally damaged Vehicles 2
Severely damaged Vehicles 2
National/Online Media

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