Kathmandu, June 7: “There were piercing shots from all sides. He came in and out,”Shahi said at the press briefing were no questions were allowed but some were asked and answered though.
”Gorakh was shot in the chest and he fell down. Shruti was shot as she tried to save him,” he said. There were no security personnel at the reception room when the shoot-out began.

Relatives were scattered in groups in the room according to age; a bar stand was set at one corner. “At one end was Paras with ladies. The carnage could have been worse,” the royal relative with a shaven head and an ash-coloured T-shirt said while breifing a  crowded and hastily called news conference.

The news conference was  delayed several minutes as journalists jostled for positions and organizers asked them to push back at a ground floor room of the hospital reception. Altogether 14 royal family members and relatives were killed or injured in the carnage.

Prince Nirajan, brother of Dipendra, Paras and the doctor escorted Dipendra to his living quarters in an intoxicated state before the firing started. ‘ He fell and was stammering,” Rajiv said. The carnage started immediately after the King and Queen drove into the Trivbhuvan Sadan and paid respects to Queen Mother Ratna at another independent room where Princess Helen Shah was also present; Princess Helen is an aunt of King Birendra.

The ADC’s were called in only after the massacre ended. “I ran out and called the ADC’s, alerted the ambulance and called doctors and rushed to the hospital,” the survivor said.  Rajiv drove to the party at 7.45 pm with his father-in-law Dhirendra and two sister-in-laws; the sister-in-laws were not injured. nepalnews.com br