At least 8 killed, many wounded as police open fire on Gen-Z crowd in Nepal’s Kathmandu | World News

At least eight young men were killed and many others wounded Monday as the police lobbed tear gas shells to disperse a Gen-Z crowd in Kathmandu that entered Nepal’s parliament, opposing the ban on social media platforms and government corruption.
So far, eight deaths have been confirmed, with an unspecified number of wounded, some critically, as protesters took to the streets in New Baneshwor.
The men, all under 30, had assembled at Maitighar Mandala, a designated protest spot, approximately 1,200 meters away from Nepal’s parliament, to protest against what they claimed was rampant corruption and the impunity with which the rulers had been operating, ignoring all demands for a probe into corruption in high places.
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After thousands of Gen-Z protesters took to the streets in a massive protest, and stormed the parliament and other government offices, the Nepal government imposed curfew in most parts of Kathmandu and Pokhara, where protests and clashes with the police took place.
Prime Miner K P Sharma Oli, whose resignation is now top of the agenda, called an emergency cabinet meeting in the evening.