location: Punarbas
notes: On 1 July 2017, Nepal Police clashed and baton charged cadres of Nepali Congress and Maoist Centre during the election counting process in Punarbas municipality (Kanchanpur district), after both the groups demonstrated over alleged irregularities in the counting process. The demonstrations occurred after the number of votes counted were greater than the number of votes cast. [size=no report]
target_text: location: Punarbas, fatalities: 0