The incident occurred after a wheel lock was placed on the motorcycle he used for work as a rider through a ride-sharing app; he was attempting to go to Dubai for foreign employment.
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Madan Nepali was at his rented room in Balaju Height, Kathmandu. He received a call from an unknown number. The caller was a representative of Nepal Police.
The news he was given was hard for Madan to believe. He rushed to Bir Hospital.
Before he arrived, his 25-year-old brother Ganesh had already been taken to the emergency ward. In the premises of Bir Hospital, he tearfully recounted, “I was completely stunned. It was only after coming here that I learned everything.”
Madan’s brother Ganesh worked as a rider through a ride-sharing app. Ganesh, who lived in Bhaktapur with his wife and nearly three-year-old daughter, had come to his brother’s place on Wednesday. Madan said, “He had left at 5 in the morning to go for a ride. Suddenly, this news came.”
While in the emergency ward, he managed to exchange a few words with his brother. “He told me to take care of our father and mother. Then he said it was all because of the metropolis. After saying that, he lost his speech,” he said.
According to SSP Dilip Ghimire, chief of Kathmandu Police Range, Ganesh had parked his motorcycle in front of the Department of Passports. Later, the Metropolitan Police put a wheel lock on it. According to Ghimire, upset that a wheel lock had been placed on his bike, Ganesh took petrol from the motorcycle and set himself on fire. “The police immediately rescued him and took him to Bir Hospital,” Ghimire told Kantipur.
According to Dr. Piyush Dahal, head of the Burn Unit at Bir Hospital, Ganesh was initially treated in the emergency room. At that time, he was still speaking a little.
A doctor involved in his treatment said about 70 percent of his body was burned and his condition is currently very critical.
Ganesh, a permanent resident of Soru Rural Municipality-1 in Mugu, had been living in Kathmandu for the past two years. According to his brother Madan, he was trying to go to Dubai for foreign employment.
His family is in a poor financial situation. Dhanakarn Mall, chair of Soru-1, said, “Ganesh had come to Kathmandu a few months ago for work. There’s nothing to do in the village. The crops don’t even last a year. It’s heartbreaking to hear of such an incident in a family like that.”
