Rajyalaxmi Chitrakar, the wife of Nepal’s ex-prime minister Jhalanath Khanal, died on Tuesday, say media reports, after protesters, led by Gen Z, trapped her in their home and set the house on fire.
The incident took place at their home in Dallu area in the state capital Kathmandu.
Ms Chitrakar was rushed to Kirtipur Burn Hospital but died during the treatment, say family sources.
Nepal’s prime minister KP Sharma Oli, whose own house was set on fire, resigned Tuesday as protests against a short-lived ban on social media grew increasingly violent and expanded into broader criticism of his government and accusations of corruption among the Himalayan country’s political elite.
Mr Oli’s finance minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel, 65, was chased through the streets of the capital, showed a disturbing video. The minister, showed the video, was kicked and thrashed brutally.
Demonstrations led by young people angry about the blocking of several social media sites gripped the country’s capital a day earlier, and police opened fired on the crowds,
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