KATHMANDU: Police said they arrested eight persons, including seven women, from Gothatar of Kathmandu while they were allegedly doing drugs on Friday.

According to police, seven others had gathered at a rented room of one Miss Khatri (full name withheld) on the outskirts of Kathmandu,  to take pharmaceutical drugs.

Several ampoules of injectable drugs, including Phergenan and Diazepam, and 13 syringes were found at the room, police said.