Incident Reports

Police fires warning shot to control unruly crowd at polling center in Tamakoshi of Dolakha

2022-11-20

Bagmati, Dolakha, Tamakoshi, Ward 2

Police fired warning shots at Tamakoshi rural municipality-2 based Amar Secondary school after a group of unruly crowd tried to mob the polling center. Voting was halted at the polling center following the incident. According to police, police fired a round of warning shot from pistol after the group trined to attack security personnel at the polling center. A team of seven security personnel under the command of a sub-inspector were deployed at the polling center.

Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Onesided
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Assault (large group)
Weapons Unclear
Primary Cause Contestation regarding implementation and legitimacy of election
Actor 1 - Number of people N
Actor 1 - Affiliations Unclear
Actor 1 - Youth na
Actor 2 - Number of people n
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Other state institutions
Actor 2 - Youth na
Election-related cause primary
National/Online Media

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