Incident Reports

Voting halted after clash between supporters of ruling alliance and independent candidate in Sarkegad of Humla

2022-11-20

Karnali, Humla, Sarkegad, Ward 3

The Deputy Polling Officer  and a Nepalese army personnel were injured during a clash between supporters of rulling alliance candidate Karchen Lama and independent candidate Mangal Bahadur Shahi in Sarkegad rural municipality-3 based Devkota Primary school Unapani polling site. The Deputy polling officer sustained injury on his head in the incident. Police fired 17 rounds of warning  shots to take the situation into control. Voting remained halted since 9:00 am at the polling site due to the clash. The clash ensued following a dispute over assisting voter with physical disability. 

Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Twosided
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Group Clash
Weapons None
Primary Cause Election-related incident
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 Nepali Congress and affiliated org CPN (Maoist Center) and affiliated org
Actor 2 - Youth na
Election-related cause primary
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