Kathmandu, Oct. 9 -- third of buildings under the federal government that were set on fire during the Gen Z protests on September 8-9 have been completely damaged.

The Department of Urban Development and Building Construction carried out rapid assessments of 440 buildings of 287 federal offices across the country. Of them 134 have been found fully destroyed while 176 have been damaged partially. As many as 130 suffered minor damage. The assessment teams have affixed red stickers, yellow stickers and green stickers to indicate the varying levels of destruction of the buildings.

"Those with green stickers can be used after minor repairs immediately," said Nisha KC, senior divisional engineer at the department. "Those found fully destroyed...