By: Express News ServiceNew Delhi | September 12, 2025 02:31 PM IST 2 min readProtesters set the Parliament building on fire as the protest turned violent, in Kathmandu. (Source: ANI)Rajesh Gola and her husband Ramvir Singh Gola had travelled to Nepal’s Kathmandu to offer prayers at the Pashupatinath Temple earlier this week. The couple from Ghaziabad had been staying at the Hyatt Regency when violent anti-government protests broke out in the country’s capital on September 7.Two days later, protesters set fire to the hotel. Panicking, Rajesh and Ramvir jumped from the fourth-floor window of their hotel room to escape the flames. While Ramvir survived the fall, Rajesh died during treatment.On Friday morning, Ramvir returned home with his wife’s body.Speaking to The Indian Express, Ramvir said, “We had gone to Kathmandu to offer prayers at Pashupatinath Temple. We then decided to go to Mithila, but before we could leave, the curfew was announced. We decided to extend our stay at the Hyatt and returned to the hotel. On September 9, the protestors came at 6 pm and set the hotel on fire. We jumped off the building, but my wife died during the treatment.”“No one helped us. Neither the Embassy, the army, nor the police,” claimed Ramvir. “I will never go to Nepal again.”The couple’s son, Vishal Singh Gola, said his parents had left for Kathmandu on September 7. “On September 10, around 12 am, we got to know that the hotel they were staying in had been torched… My father broke the glass panel of the window, and they jumped down using a bedsheet.”“Till then, my mother was fine. But they were separated, and she panicked. Had my parents been together, she would have survived,” Vishal said.Story continues below this ad“Hyatt was a big hotel, I thought they would be safe there… we got no support from the Embassy. We used all our contacts to bring her body back,” he claimed.Vipin Kumar, a relative, claimed that after the couple was separated, it took Ramvir three hours to find his wife. “When he finally got to her, she was no more,” he claimed.Stay updated with the latest - Click here to follow us on Instagram© The Indian Express Pvt LtdTags:Nepal