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Pokhara Mayor injures 5 while operating an excavator

Pokhara Mayor injures 5 while operating an excavator

By THT Online

Pokhara Metropolis Mayor Man Bahadur GC pictured at a pedestrian path inauguration programme, moments before mishandling the excavator lever. The Mayor operated an excavator sans technical expertise and injured five including two journalists while destroying a railing on Friday, June 15, 2018. PHOTO:THT

POKHARA: Five persons including two local journalists were injured at an inauguration of a pedestrian path in Pokhara Lekhnath Metropolitan City, today. It has been learnt that the chief guest of the inauguration programme, city Mayor Man Bahadur GC, operated an excavator sans technical expertise and accidentally destroyed a railing where the victims had rested their back before they fell 20 metres down in a rivulet. The victims have sustained minor injuries in the incident.