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on 30-Jun-01 12:57 AM
Major Gajendra Bohara (ADC to Dipendra, also in the ADC office at the time): “I was working on the computer when Sunder Pratap said what happened? I stepped out and then heard the sound of firing, and said “sir I can hear shots.” I went straight ahead and reached the broken door. From there my eyes went to the entrance door. I saw the crown prince step out and pulled at the door (broken one). I knew the door would be locked from the inside, then I ran around and peeped but I could not see anything, then I turned back. At that time I saw another ADC coming and moved forward—slowly—because I had seen firearms. My aim was to protect the crown prince…by the time the colonel had entered the room, and I also saw that inside all had fallen…All had fallen but at the time I did not even think that the crown prince had shot himself, I was only thinking of how to get him under control, if nothing had happened to him it would take much time to control him, so we were looking around slowly. Then we heard a sound from the stairs leading to the garden. It was a loud groaning noise, the groaning was there till we had reached the hospital. Following the noise we found the crown prince and brought him out…”
Captain Chakra Shah (ADC to the Queen Mother): “…After hearing ‘call the doctor, call the doctor’ we ran towards (the room). I was on duty in the area for the first time so I did not know where the entrance was…I tried to open the door, others broke the door and stepped in, later I followed. They had covered His Majesty and because my responsibility was the Queen Mother, I began to look for her…I searched for the Queen Mother among the female corpses but did not find her…then I came out from another window…then I didn’t know where she was coming from, she called me ‘Chakra…”
Captain Pawan Khatri: (ADC His Majesty the king, in the duty room after the king went to Tribhuvan room from his office): “We were chatting when there was a bang, bang sound from outside. We had just stepped out when we heard loud firing. Then we heard ‘call the doctor’ from inside. The Colonel was on the phone, on the set I called for the military police and ran forward…when I reached near (the room), I saw a man in combat fatigue leave from the back door, in the garden-side door with a gun whose light was on, the gun was facing this side (sic) and the person was about to turn. The light on the gun was still on. I stood outside and had my pistol in my hands, after that I went to support Colonel Sunder Pratap.”
Santa Bahadur Khadka, Kitchen Boy: “…The Crown Prince was moving backwards with guns in two hands, he was moving backwards and the (woman in red) was in front of him, we could not recognise her… The two were not talking, they were running, shouting, screaming. I cannot say who was speaking. The women in the room were screaming.”
Bacchuram KC, Kitchen boy: “I had gone inside (the room) with cold drinks about two minutes before the incident. After I had come about 10 metres north from the door of the room, the Crown Prince came in army dress. He had a gun in front. I thought he may be going out somewhere. The firing started the moment (he entered) the room, then I became scared, my heart began pounding, I ran away. …I had seen (guns) in two of his hands, one was big, another small…He was in a scary position…. Seeing him with weapons, I was scared, my heart skipped a beat (mutu chaskiyo), still I stood by and watched where he was heading. But after he went in and I heard the loud noise, there was no point for me to stay there.
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