Pokhara, June 15
As many as five persons, including an Onlinekhabar journalist, were injured when Pokhara Lekhnath Mayor Man Bahadur GC operated an excavator to ‘inaugurate’ the construction of a trail in the city.
Those injured in the Khani Khola incident are: Sandesh Shrestha, Ranjan Adhikari, and Gauri Poudel among others.
Locals and journalists were leaning against a fence to take pictures of the event when Mayor GC, who was inside the vehicle along with its operator, ‘pressed the lever accidentally’. The excavator’s bucket was set loose and it damaged the fence. People leaning against the fence fell onto a ravine.
The injured are receiving treatment at the Metro City hospital in Pokhara.
