Kathmandu, Sept. 16 -- Doctors and nurses at the National Trauma Centre had expected some participants of the Gen Z protest to come to them with baton-inflicted wounds and had prepared accordingly.

But, on the fateful day of September 8, when ambulances began arriving one after another carrying critically injured college students, they were shocked.

"Protesters were shot in their head, chest and abdomen," said Dr Badri Rijal, medical superintendent of the centre. "Some were unconscious on arrival, while others were writhing in pain."

At least 72 people, including police and inmates, died and over 1,700 were injured in the two days of Gen Z protests across the country that also left government offices and hundreds of private residences ...