Kathmandu, Oct. 28 -- year-old Nikita Gautam of Chitwan was living in a rented flat in Gausala, Kathmandu. Her landlord, Manoj Gautam, said she was sitting on the rooftop watching the September 9 protests when a bullet fired from a nearby police post struck her in the chest, killing her instantly.

Dhiraj Shrestha of ward 4 in Tarkeshwar Municipality had joined the protest in New Baneshwar on September 8 and went again the next day. His father, Narayan Shrestha, said Dhiraj was killed when a bullet fired by police from the Metropolitan Police Circle in Balaju struck his neck.

An internal police report stated that during the September 8 protest in New Baneshwar, 25-year-old Sulavraj Shrestha and 19-year-old Shreyam Chaulagain were shot in...