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Road Accident in Kathmandu Killed Six People
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On August 5, 2009, in the mid-night a car moving at a very high speed has hit several people walking on the sidewalk at the Bir Hospital killing six of them on the spot and injuring one person seriously. All of the deceased are Indians. They have been returning home from the Bir Hospital after the medical treatment of a boy at the Bir Hospital. The car driver has fled the accident spot and still absconding. The police have held the father of the car driver for questioning.
Some people have protested the police not coming to the accident area immediately and closed the traffic the whole day and even caused damage to the car left by the driver on the spot of the accident. The police have not shown any interest in protecting the car from vandalism.
Home Minister Bhim Rawal has inspected the damaged car and the accident spot but what he has instructed to the people is not known. The Home Minister has been preparing a special security plan but has not been able to enforce the traffic rules in Kathmandu and has been contributing to the increased number of accidents in Kathmandu and elsewhere in Nepal.
Some people say that the Home Minister’s special security plan is only for earning the commission he will receive from the purchase of uniforms for the additional 16,000 policemen he is going to hire. One estimate has it that even if the cost of uniform per person is only Rs 5,000, the total cost comes to Rs 80 million; so 10% of the Rs 80 million will be commission for anybody buying the uniforms.
