Police in Kathmandu have opened fire on protesters demonstrating against a government ban on social media, killing at least 11 and wounding dozens more.

Seven people died at the National Trauma Centre, said Dr Badri Risal, adding there were 58 wounded in the hospital.

"Many of them are in serious condition and appear to have been shot in the head and chest," the doctor said at the country's main hospital in the heart of Kathmandu.

Families waited anxiously outside for news of their relatives while people lined up to donate blood.

Two people died at the Civil Hospital and two more at the KMC hospital, according to doctors there who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorised to comment.

The wounded were being treated at half a dozen hospitals in Kathmandu.

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