Nepal Sets Up Probe Panel After Deadly Anti-Corruption Protests Kill 74

Nepal’s interim government, led by former Chief Justice Sushila Karki, has set up a panel to investigate the violence during anti-corruption protests this month that killed seventy-four people and forced Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to quit, according to a Nepal minister.

Rameshwore Khanal, who Karki put in charge of the finance ministry, said the three-member panel headed by retired judge Gauri Bahadur Karki had been given three months to complete the probe.

In a social media post, former Prime Minister Oli also demanded an investigation into the violence and said his government did not order police to fire at the protesters.