Rage and resilience: (Clockwise from top left) Fire raging through the Singha Durbar, Nepal’s main administrative complex in Kathmandu, a day after police cracked down on demonstrations over social media bans and government corruption. — AFP
Soldiers guarded the country’s parliament and patrolled deserted streets amid a curfew in the capital Kathmandu, after two days of deadly anti-corruption protests forced Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to resign.
The upheaval in the poor Himalayan nation was unleashed by a social media ban that was announced last week, but was rolled back after 19 people were killed on Monday as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to control crowds.
