Po­lice in Nepal’s cap­i­tal of Kath­man­du opened fire Mon­day on demon­stra­tors protest­ing a gov­ern­ment at­tempt to reg­u­late so­cial me­dia that blocked some of the world’s largest plat­forms, in­clud­ing Face­book, X and YouTube. At least 17 peo­ple were killed.

Ral­lies swept the streets around the Par­lia­ment build­ing, which was sur­round­ed by tens of thou­sands of peo­ple an­gry at au­thor­i­ties who said the com­pa­nies had failed to reg­is­ter and sub­mit to gov­ern­ment over­sight. At least 145 peo­ple were wound­ed, of­fi­cials said.

Pro­test­ers pushed through barbed wire and forced ri­ot po­lice to re­treat in­side the Par­lia­ment com­plex.