Incident Reports
Volunteer injured in police firing during clash in Tarakhase of Gorkha
2022-05-13
A volunteer deployed at Tarakhase polling center in Bhimsen Thapa rural municipality-2 of Gorkha was injured when police fired warning shots to control crowd. Police fired the warning shots after situation turned tense due to clash between Nepali Congress and CPN-UML cadres. According to SP Kedar Khanal, police fired warning shots to control the situation and protect polling booth from the clash. Volunteer Manisha Thapa sustained injury in the firing.
Details and Impacts
| Violent / Non-violent | Violent |
| Onesided / Twosided | Twosided |
| Collective / Interpersonal | Collective |
| Primary Form | Group Clash |
| Weapons | Small arms |
| Primary Cause | Election-related incident |
| Secondary Cause | Contestation between Parties |
| Actor 1 - Number of people | N |
| Actor 1 - Affiliations | CPN (Maoist Center) and affiliated org |
| Actor 1 - Youth | na |
| Actor 2 - Number of people | N |
| Actor 2 - Affiliation | Nepali Congress and affiliated org |
| Actor 2 - Youth | na |
| Total Injured | 1 |
| Female Injured | 1 |
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