Kathmandu, Feb. 3:Five of the eight victims of yesterday’s street attacks at different places in Kathmandu were discharged today from Bir Hospital where they were admitted for treatment of various injuries.

The police sources said they are convinced of involvement of three “youths” out of the twenty-two arrests made in suspicion of involvement in the indiscriminate street attack on innocent passers-by.

Durgesh Sah’s first visit to Kathmandu to see his sick cousin turned out to be a terrifying experience when he was slashed in arms and head upon his denial to hand over money to a group of young gangsters. “The youths looked to be college educated and from good families, they were not wearing masks and were smoking cigarettes,” the 17-year old student from Sarlahi said from his hospital bed.

He later identified one of his attackers who is in the police custody now.

“We are, to some extent, satisfied that three of the twenty-two arrests are involved in the rampage,” said Deputy Superintend of Police Devendra Subedi, the officer who is investigating the incidents. He claimed that all the gangsters would be put behind the bars by the end of this week.

However, another victim Lekh Bahadur Adhikari offers quite different story about his attackers than Sah. Though he “cannot imagine their motive behind the attack” he claimed to be sure that it was not for money. “I have undergone an experience where I was threatened to extract money, but this gang did not feel that they were doing it for money,” he said at the hospital.

The police claim that the gangsters involved in the attack are “young drug addicts”. So far, the police investigation have revealed that the same group was involved in three attacks which took place in Teku, Om Bahal and Yangal within a period of twenty minutes, whereas different groups were involved in attacks that took place in Teku-Pachali, Lagan, Khushibhu and Vanasthali.

On contrary to DSP Subedi, another police officer with Kathmandu District Police Office, DSP Ganesh Raj Rai claimed that the police is convinced on involvement of Sandip Gurung, Raju Munikar, Upakar Shrestha and Ujjwal Nakarmi in the Wednesday incidents, who were arrested in Kathmandu on Wednesday. “The other three members of their gang are still at large,” DSP Rai said.

Prakash Pandey, another victim, also remained in the hospital who, according to Bir Hospital sources, needs a plastic surgery on the face.