FILE PHOTO: Nepal's former Chief Justice Sushila Karki speaks with the media after meeting Doctor Govinda KC, who has been on a hunger strike to demand the government make reforms in the medical sector, in Kathmandu, Nepal, January 30, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer/File photo
KATHMANDU (Reuters) -Nepal's former Chief Justice Sushila Karki has been chosen as the country's interim leader, said an official from Nepal president's office, after violent anti-corruption protests forced Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to resign this week.
Karki, 73, the only woman to have held the post of chief justice of the Supreme Court of Nepal, will take oath at 2045 local time (1500 GMT), Archana Khadka Adhikari, information officer at the president'soffice, said.
At least 51 people died and more than 1,300 were injured in the violence on Monday and Tuesday.
(Reporting by Gopal Sharma, Aftab Ahmed and Sarita Chaganti Singh; writing by Hritam Mukherjee; editing by YP Rajesh and Sudipto Ganguly)
