Authorities may enforce further curfews at short notice and people should avoid areas affected by demonstrations, protests and other public gatherings, travellers have been told.

What we know about Nepal’s protests

Protests started on Monday with demands that the government lift a ban on social media and tackle corruption, with police trying to crush the rallies — including using live ammunition, according to Amnesty International.

Protesters clashed with police outside the nation’s parliament in Kathmandu on Sunday as thousands of youths rallied against the government’s social media ban and widespread corruption. Source: NurPhoto / Sanjit Pariyar / via Getty Images

Several social media sites — including Facebook, YouTube and X — were blocked on Friday, after the government cut access to 26 unregistered platforms.

“The Nepal government has fallen, the youth have won the protest,” said key protest figure Sudan Gurung, in a post on newly-restored Instagram. “The future is ours.”

A vigil for protesters killed in Nepal was held at Federation Square in Melbourne on Tuesday night. Source: SBS News / Abhas Parajuli

Gangs on Tuesday attacked and set fire to 73-year-old Oli’s house. His whereabouts are not known.

Plumes of smoke also covered Nepal’s parliament as demonstrators breached the fence and “torched the main building,” Ekram Giri, spokesperson for the Parliament Secretariat, told AFP.

President calls for ‘restraint’

Those appeals did not seem to be heeded.

Kathmandu’s airport remains open, but some flights were cancelled after smoke from fires affected visibility, airport spokesperson Rinji Sherpa said.

What happens next is unclear

What happens next is unclear.

Protesters at the Singha Durbar, the seat of Nepal’s government’s various ministries and offices, after it was set on fire. Source: AP / AP Photo / Niranjan Shrestha

“The protesters, leaders who are trusted by them and the army should come together to pave the way for a caretaker government,” constitutional lawyer Dipendra Jha told AFP.