A journalist died during the protest of royalists in Tinkune on Friday.

Avenues TV journalist Suresh Rajak died in a fire set by the pro-monarchy protesters at a house in Tinkune this afternoon, police informed.

Avenues TV Editor Shiva Dahal said that Rajak died in a fire set by royalists at a private house in Tinkune.

He had been working as a camera person at the Avenues TV for the past five years.

According to Dahal, Rajak was filming a video of the protesters sitting on the roof of the house set on fire by the protesters.

Nepal Police spokesperson DIG Dinesh Kumar Acharya confirmed that a body has been recovered from the house that caught fire.

The body has been sent to the Maharajgunj-based Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital for postmortem, he added.

Similarly, Sabin Maharjan (29) of Kirtipur lost his life in the clash, police informed.