KATHMANDU, Sept. 20 -- More than 1,000 government vehicles-about 400 four-wheelers and 600 motorcycles-were torched or vandalized during the Gen-Z uprising and are now being moved to the Parliament building grounds in New Baneshwor for safekeeping. Ministries have begun compiling formal damage reports while trying to function with the few vehicles that escaped destruction.

According to Narayan Mainali, spokesperson for the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD), the ministry and its subordinate offices lost 52 small vehicles and about 70 motorcycles. Similarly, the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport (MoPIT) reported that nine cars were burned and 13 others vandalized. The Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers...