Incident Reports
Police fire warning shots as situation turn tense during vote counting in Dhanauji of Dhanusha
2022-05-16
Police fired a dozen round of warning shot to control the situation after the dispute while counting the votes of local elections turned into a riot at Dhanauji rural municipality-1 in Dhanusha. The dispute escalated as 15 more ballot papers than the number of vote counts recorded were found in the ballot boxes during counting.
Details and Impacts
| Violent / Non-violent | Violent |
| Onesided / Twosided | Twosided |
| Collective / Interpersonal | Collective |
| Primary Form | Group Clash |
| Weapons | Unclear |
| Primary Cause | Election-related incident |
| Secondary Cause | Contestation regarding the outcome of election |
| Actor 1 - Number of people | n/a |
| Actor 1 - Affiliations | Other/multiple/unspecified political affiliation |
| Actor 1 - Youth | na |
| Actor 2 - Number of people | n/a |
| Actor 2 - Affiliation | Other/multiple/unspecified political affiliation |
| Actor 2 - Youth | na |
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