A gang of suspected criminals at 00:30 on Wednesday murdered six persons at Bhotahity in Kathmandu. According to a taxi driver, one of the eyewitnesses, the gang on a vehicle numbered B. A. Ch. 8030 drove to the bar of the pavement and killed six passers-by while some others escaped the attempt. The driver said that he and some other taxi drivers took the dead bodies to Bir Hospital after the police told them to do so after the incident.
Among the murdered have been identified as Madan Gupta, Sanjay Gupta, Dharmanath Sinha, Beena Sinha, Krishnaa Devi and one unidentified person—one man and one woman. The six of the killed are reported to have been from Bihar of India.
According to police sources, the police have captured the car though the driver called Biplavman Singh escaped after the assault.
One woman who survived the car assault said that the gang dragged another passer-by and ran over him. According to her, the deceased lived at Asan and Bangemudha in Kathmandu.
Portion of brains stuck on the metal bars of the pavement at Bhotahity Sub-way Cross was seen. Blood was also observed at the spot. One portion of the metal bar at the pavement was also seen collapsed.
Policemen deployed at the spot said that it was a murder scandal and could in no way be an accident. However, the mass media of Nepal have disseminated its news as a mere ‘accident’.
The deceased are known to have been street vendors. They were returning from Bir Hospital in connection with the emergency treatment of one of their children.
Local people in angry mood have begun protesting against the massacre. Crowds gathered at the spot said that they understood the incident as a pure murder by an experienced criminal in the form of a car driver.
Ordinary people protesting in the streets have demanded the immediate arrest of the murderers for legal actions.
In Kathmandu, elite family members, usually suspected of having nexus with state power and smuggling gangs, enjoy in night brothels and come home late. Many unidentified murders in the name of car-hits had occurred in the past as well.
Law application mechanisms are considered morally quite weak due to all-pervasive corruption and bribery.
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