Katmandu: University student Aditya Rawal was outside Nepal’s parliament with hundreds of other anti-corruption protesters when gunfire crackled and 14 people slumped down in front of him. One was his university friend, and as he dashed forward to help — with his hands up — bullets smashed into him too. “I heard somewhere that if you raise both hands, they will not shoot you,” Rawal, a 22-year-old digital marketer, told AFP as he lay on a bed in the capital Katmandu’s Civil Service Hospital.

Katmandu: University student Aditya Rawal was outside Nepal’s parliament with hundreds of other anti-corruption protesters when gunfire crackled and 14 people slumped down in…

Many young people were among more than 70 people killed in anti-corruption protests in Nepal.