Incident Reports
Police fires warning shots to control situation following clash over representative of political parties at polling center in Sarlahi's Dhankaul
2022-05-13
Police fired warning shots to take situation under control after a clash between cadres of Nepali Congress, CPN-UML, and CPN (Maoist Center) Animal Service Center polling station of Dhankaul Rural Municipality-2. Cadres of the three political parties threw stones at each other in the clash. A team of Nepal army was deployed to control the situation.
Details and Impacts
| Violent / Non-violent | Violent |
| Onesided / Twosided | Onesided |
| Collective / Interpersonal | Collective |
| Primary Form | Group Clash |
| Weapons | Blunt weapon |
| Primary Cause | Election-related incident |
| Secondary Cause | Contestation between Parties |
| Actor 1 - Number of people | N |
| Actor 1 - Affiliations | Nepali Congress and affiliated org |
| Actor 1 - Youth | na |
| Actor 2 - Number of people | n |
| Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) | UML and affiliated org |
| Actor 2 - Youth | unknown |
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