Jhapa, May 2 -- Chandra Bahadur Baraili of Dhangdhange in ward 3 of Damak Municipality returned home from Saudi Arabia a few days ago. While working there, he said he witnessed drone attacks near an oil refinery close to his workplace, Iran's retaliatory act after the US-Israeli invasion on February 28.

Following the incident, his company granted him leave. After returning safely to Nepal, he is now living in a squatter settlement on the banks of the Dhukure Khola, south of the 17-storey view tower in Damak.

His fear now is of a different kind. After hearing about squatter settlements bulldozed along the Bagmati and Manohara river corridors in Kathmandu, he feels increasingly insecure.

Baraili's home falls in Jhapa-5, the constituency ...