Following two days of deadly anti-graft protests that forced Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to resign, an indefinite curfew was imposed on the capital, Kathmandu, leaving streets desolate and armed soldiers guarding Nepal’s parliament on Wednesday.
A social media ban that was declared last week and then revoked after 19 people were killed on Monday when police used tear gas and rubber bullets to quell protestors caused the worst unrest in decades in the impoverished Himalayan country.
In the vicinity of parliament, where army firefighters fought to put out a fire in the main hall and the exterior was scorched after irate demonstrators set it on fire on Tuesday, burned cars and twisted metal piles were everywhere.
