‘We jumped off 4th floor of hotel… my wife died…’: Ghaziabad woman killed after Nepal protestors set fire to Hyatt in Kathmandu

Panicking, Rajesh and Ramvir used a bedsheet to half-jump, half-slide out of their fourth-floor hotel window to escape the flames. Ramvir survived the fall, but Rajesh suffered injuries and died during treatment.

On Friday, around 10.30 am, Ramvir reached home with his wife’s body.

Speaking to The Indian Express, he said, “We had gone to Kathmandu to offer prayers at Pashupatinath Temple. We then decided to go to Mithila, but before we could head there, a curfew was announced and the airport was shut. So, we decided to extend our stay at Hyatt and returned to the hotel.”

He said the protesters came at 6 pm on September 9. “Hotel mein aag laga di… maine aur meri patni ne kud kar jaan bachayi. Jab usko hospital mein admit kiya toh ilaaj ke dauran uski maut ho gayi. (They set the hotel on fire. My wife and I jumped off the building to save our lives, but she died during treatment at the hospital).”

“No one helped us,” claimed Ramvir. “I will never go to Nepal again.”

At 10.30 am, Rajesh’s body was brought to her two-storey home in Nandgram’s Master Colony for the final rites.

After the cremation, family members and relatives gathered, performing rituals. White plastic sheets covered the lane leading to their home, brown and red chairs were scattered around, and water was being served to visitors. Amidst the quiet murmurs, people whispered about how tragic her death was.

The couple’s son, Vishal Singh Gola, said, “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 the army personnel separated my parents, and she panicked. Had they been together, she would have survived,” Vishal alleged.

“Hyatt was a big hotel, I thought they would be safe there… we used all our contacts to bring her body back,” he claimed.

Ramvir runs a transport business in Ghaziabad. The couple has three children, who are married.
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.

The Ministry of External Affairs, in its response, said, “We extend our deep condolences to the family of the deceased. The Embassy rendered all possible help in the matter. As soon as the Mission received information regarding the deceased on 10 September 2025, the Embassy’s doctor was dispatched to the hospital. The doctor met the deceased’s husband and assisted in facilitation of the required paperwork with Police as well as at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu for the postmortem.”

“The Consular Wing also issued the letter for the postmortem and release of body immediately. All the procedures were completed by 11 September 2025. The family organized the transport of the body to India through an ambulance on 11 September 2025,” it added