Kathmandu, Sept. 14 -- year-old Santosh Rawal was shot at around 12:45 during Monday's protests in front of Parliament, he thought the sting in his thigh was just a tear gas shell fragment.

Only when fellow demonstrators told him, "It looks like you've been shot," did he realise a bullet had pierced his leg. He was immediately taken to the Civil Hospital opposite the Parliament complex in New Baneshwar.

Rawal, a bachelor student at Mahendra Ratna Campus, Tahachal, was one of many injured in this week's Gen Z-led demonstrations against entrenched corruption in the country.

"We got shot on the frontline for the country. We were afraid and worried about what was happening outside," said Rawal. "Yet the people calling themselves leaders or...