Two days of extremely violent riots in Kathmandu, Nepal, which saw protesters capture Singha Durbar, which housed the office of the former Prime Minister and other ministries, setting them on fire, on Sept. 9. K.P. Sharma Oli resigned as prime minister the same day. During the two-day demonstrations, hundreds of protesters stormed the Prime Minister’s office, set fire to the Supreme Court and Parliament buildings, and vandalized the homes of several senior leaders.
Following a nearly four-hour virtual meeting in which between 300 and 400 participants of the protest movement took part, according to local media, the youth leaders of the protest movement proposed former Chief Justice Sushila Karki to serve as the country’s interim prime minister, Reuters reported on Sept. 10, citing the secretary of the Supreme Court Bar Association. Sushila Karki, 73, the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nepal and the only woman to have held the post, has accepted the proposal.
The Ministry of Health and Population of Nepal on Wednesday, Sept. 10, stated that the death toll has risen to 30. According to the ministry, 1,033 people were injured during the nationwide protests. Nepal’s international airport officially reopened on Wednesday morning after being closed for two days, according to a notice from the civil aviation authority.
