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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. 

Protesters demanding the reinstatement of monarchy attempted to torch the office of the Annapurna Post on Friday.

The pro-monarchy protesters attempted to set fire to the office of the Annapurna Post at Corporate Tower in Tinkune. The security guards extinguished the flame.

The protest, which was expected to be peaceful, turned violent as the demonstrators’ hurled stones and attempted to torch the office of the Annapurna Post.

There were reports that the royalists have resorted to vandalism and arson in various parts of the Capital since this morning.

It seems that their intention was not to make the protest peaceful but violent.

Prior to attempting to set fire to the office of AMN, the pro-monarchy protesters had vandalized and torched a house in Tinkune.

Meanwhile, police have opened fire to take the situation under control. Two demonstrators were injured in the police action.

According to a police source, both were shot below the knee.

Police used force after the protesters turned violent.

Pro-monarchy supporters set ablaze a house in Tinkune on Thursday.

Protesters turned violent after security personnel fired teargas canisters at the demonstration of royalists.

They pelted stones at people's homes, shops and chanted slogans against the government.

A clash ensued between protesters and police after the former tried to cross the prohibited area.

The pro-monarchy supporters are staging a demonstration by leaving the program venue.

Police are constantly firing tear gas at them.

A massive fire broke at a play industry in Dang, destroying wood, raw materials and machinery. There are no human casualties, police said.  

According to Nepal Police, the fire broke out at the Sangrila Ply Industry in Khaira, Ghorahi Sub-Metropolis.

Property worth around Rs 1.5 million was reduced to ashes when a fire broke at a house with tin roof of local Krishna Hari Shrestha in Kathmandu on Saturday.

The fire, which broke out at 9: 40 pm and continued for an hour, destroyed the  one-story house of Shrestha at Syuchatar in Nagarjun Municipality-7, according to Apil Bohara, spokesperson at the District Police Range, Kathmandu.

The fire engines could not reach the house to put off the flame due to the narrow street.

However, the security personnel and locals jointly extinguished the fire with the help of two small-size fire engines. Although four other fire engines had reached around the incident site, they could not access the right place owing to a narrow street.

A police team led by chief of Kalimati Police Circle, Rupak Khadka, was mobilized to douse the fire. Even the police personnel from Swayambhu assisted the rescue team.

All household items including clothes, food grains, furniture and utensils were destroyed in the blaze.

Police have suspected that the incident might have occurred due to power leakage.

A massive fire broke out at the RMB Plastic Packaging House in Bosigaun, Chandragiri Municipality-10, Kathmandu last night.

Pushpa Shrestha and Ramesh Podar owned the factory.

A large number of police personnel from Balaju Police Circle and Thankot Police Circle were deployed to douse the fire.

Spokesperson of District Police Range and Superintendent of Police (SP), Apil Raj Bohara, said the fire was brought under control with the help of police, the fire fighters and local people.

Police said that seven fire engines from Chandragiri Municipality, Lalitpur Metropolitan City, Bhaktapur Municipality, Budhanilkantha Municipality and others were used to extinguish the fire.

SP Bohara shared that the factory was completely destroyed in the fire.

The details of the loss caused by the fire are yet to be ascertained, police and stakeholders said.

Four buildings were destroyed in a fire that broke out in a hotel on the bank of the Rara Lake last night.

The fire damaged the buildings made up of wooden structures. The hotel staff along with Nepal Army, Nepal Police and Armed Police Force doused the fire this morning.

A 15-member police team headed by Sub Inspector Deepak KC had reached Rara from the district headquarters Gamgadhi immediately after knowing the incident.

According to the District Police Office, the fire that broke out from the hotel's kitchen caused damages to three other buildings after the gas cylinder exploded.

The security personnel had immediately rescued the guests from the hotel and shifted them to nearby hotels, army barracks and national park offices.

Details of the incident are awaited.

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) has urged people to remain alert as the number of fire incidents is increasing with the onset of the dry season and this trend could increase further.

NDRRMA spokesperson Dr Dijan Bhattarai stressed that since most of the fires are man-made, everyone should be alert on time to prevent it.

Meanwhile, the District Police Range, Kathmandu, has issued a notice making it public that 34 fire incidents have occurred since mid-December in Kathmandu alone.

A public notice issued by the Range requests one and all to keep flammable materials such as matches and lighters out of the reach of children, to install a smoke detector, and to practice mock drill on how to stop and escape from a fire.

Similarly, in the event of a fire, the Range requests all to inform the people around (by sounding the alarm or shouting) and to get out as soon as possible.

"Never try to hide inside the house, after leaving the house, make sure that all the family has come out safely. As soon as you are informed of a fire, inform the police control 100, the fire service 101 and the local police. If you have to go out through a smoke-filled place, crawl with your head down, which will make it easier for you to breathe," the Range said in the notice.

It also suggests people not to run if your clothes are on fire. Stop and extinguish the fire before running, as the fire will spread even faster if you run with your clothes on fire.

Properties worth millions of rupees were destroyed when a fire broke in Sankhamul, Kathmandu on Sunday.

Police said that five shops were reduced to ashes and a house suffered partial damages in the fire that broke out near Dobhan Bridge in Sankhamul, Kathmandu today.

The fire was taken under control with the help of fire engines from Lalitpur Metropolitan City, Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Nepal Police, Armed Police Force and locals.

Full details of the damage caused by the fire are yet to come, police said.

More than 100 houses were reduced to ashes in a fire that broke out at the Jaralahawa settlement in Matihani Municipality-6 of Mohattari on Wednesday.

According to Mayor Hari Prasad Mandal, 100 houses of the settlement were destroyed in the fire.

He said that the details of the damage caused by the fire are yet to be ascertained as the fire has not been taken under control.

Mayor Mandal said that the fire engines brought from the municipality, Janeshwor, Gaushala, Ram Gopalpur and Janakpurdham Sub-Metropolitan City are trying to extinguish the fire.

Nepal Army, Armed Police Force, Nepal Police personnel and locals are also battling to put off the inferno.

A truck carrying chemicals used in drugs caught fire in Dhading on Tuesday.

The truck (Na 4 Kha 8617) was heading towards Kathmandu from Sunauli of Rupandehi when it suddenly caught fire at Banchhetar in Gajuri Rural Municipality-6 of Dhading district this morning.

Sushil BK, the driver of the truck, surmised that the incident might have occurred after the chemical canisters collided with each other when the truck was moving.

A fire engine has been called from Dhunibesi Municipality to put off the fire, said Ganesh Lal Shrestha, Chairman of Gajuri Rural Municipality.

Fire incidents have escalated with the start of the dry season.

Four hundred and eighty-eight fire incidents were reported in 14 districts of Koshi Province in the last three months, according to the Koshi Province Police Office.

Superintendent of the Office Deepak Pokharel said 12 people were killed and 24 others injured in the fire incidents in a period of three months from December 17, 2023 to March 21, 2024.

According to him, the fire incidents have mostly occurred due to electric short circuit and when fire lit in the kitchen and cow sheds go out of control.

Stating that wildfires have also broken out in local forests, SP Pokharel warned of the bush fires sometimes spreading to human settlements if not doused in time.

Two houses were gutted in a fire in Taplejung on Tuesday.

According to the District Police Office, Taplejung , properties worth around Rs 1.5 million were destroyed in the fire.

Police said that the houses of Harka Bahadur Paluwa and Subas Nalbu were engulfed in the flame.

The fire destroyed cash, food and clothes inside the houses. Two sheds close to the houses were also turned into ashes.

Some forests of the district have also caught fire.

At least seven houses were gutted in the last seven days in the district, the office informed.

A massive fire in Bangladesh that raced through a six-storey building home to restaurants where many families with children were dining has killed at least 45 people and injured dozens, the health minister said on Friday.

Fire authorities said a gas leak or a stove could have caused Thursday's blaze in the capital, which spread quickly after breaking out in a biryani restaurant, and was only reined in following two hours of effort by 13 units of firefighters.

Hospitals are treating 22 people with burn wounds, Health Minister Samanta Lal Sen told reporters.

"All 22 people ... are in critical condition," Sen said after a visit to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed shock and sorrow over the incident, ordering officials to provide swift treatment for the injured.

One survivor, Mohammad Altaf, recounted his narrow escape from the blaze that killed two colleagues.

"I went to the kitchen, broke a window and jumped to save myself," he told reporters, adding that a cashier and server who urged people to leave during the first moments had died later.

Firefighters used cranes to rescue people from the charred building, said fire officials, who were still working to clear debris and stamp out any remaining embers.

Relatives gathered at the hospital early on Friday to receive the bodies of the dead, with some mourning outside the emergency department.

Doctors said most of the dead were killed by suffocation with others dying as they jumped off the building, which also houses some clothing and mobile telephone shops.

The fire could have originated from a gas leak or stove, said Brigadier General Main Uddin, a top fire service official.

"It was a dangerous building with gas cylinders on every floor, even on the stairs," he told Reuters, adding that it had a single staircase, lacking an emergency exit and other safety measures.

The government has set up a five-member panel to investigate the incident.

The main opposition party blamed the government for the fire.

"Accidents and disasters keep happening as there is no rule of law," Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, the secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) said in a statement.

"The government is not accountable to the people and that's why anarchy prevails, many accidents occur and people lose their lives."

Intense scrutiny of Bangladesh and the major global clothing retailers that manufacture there has helped prevent disasters in the garment sector since a fire in 2012 and a building collapse in 2013 together killed more than 1,200 workers.

But in other industries, mainly catering to the booming domestic economy and lacking equal emphasis on safety, hundreds of people have died in fires.

Fires are common in densely populated Dhaka, where many new buildings have sprung up, many lacking adequate safety measures. Fires and explosions have resulted from faulty gas cylinders, air conditioners and poor electrical wiring.

In July 2021, many children were among the 54 people killed at a food processing factory outside Dhaka, while at least 70 people were killed in a February 2019 fire that engulfed a centuries-old precinct.

Properties worth over Rs 2.6 million were destroyed when a fire broke out at a house in Bhojpur.

The fire started from a butter lamp lit for the Laxmi Puja ritual during Tihar festival, it is said.

The house of one Gyan Raj Bista at Bhojpur Municipality-8 was damaged in the fire caused by the lamp lit for the Laxmi Puja, destroying properties worth over Rs 2.6 million, said Inspector Dal Bahadur Rai, information officer for the district police office, Bhojpur. 

The two-storied house of Bista was burnt down due to the blaze, and clothes, food, gold ornaments worth more than Rs 2.6 million, and cash of Rs 15,000 were also destroyed, he said. The fire was doused with the help of the district police office, Nepal Army, local people and a fire engine. 

Meanwhile, a house was gutted in a fire that started from a butter lamp lit for the Laxmi Puja at Himabi of Khandbari Municipality-1 in Sankhuwasabha district.

The house belonging to one Lila Rai was destroyed last night, said Inspector Ram Kumar Lamichhane at the district police office, Sankhuwasabha.

However, there were no casualties in the blaze, he said, adding that clothes and food stored in Rai's house were burnt in the fire.

The blaze was brought under control one hour later with the help of Nepal Army, Nepal Police and local people.

Police said that Rs 31,000 cash was destroyed in the fire, and a tempo parked in the house premises was also damaged.