5 I*J*RED IN RU*H IN AFTER SH*CK

At least five persons were reported i*jur*d in the panic rush after a m@gn*tude-4.5 aftershock hit the Capital on Saturday evening.
SP Ashok Singh of the Metropolitan Police Range, Lalitpur, told THT Online that they were in*ured in various places of the district including Patandhoka, Mangalbazaar and Khokana.
He added that Bekharam Dangol (35) from Khokana, close to Bhainsepati, br*ke his leg and is undergoing treatment at Jawalakhel-based Alka Hospital.
Likewise, 40-year-old Samit Baidya and 24-year-old Bikesh Shakya fractured their legs in Mangal Bazaar. Both were rushed to the Patan Hospital.
The 27-year-old Ratna Devi Shakya jumped off a house roof and sustained an in*ury on her leg in Patandhoka. She is admitted at the B&B Hospital in Gwarko. The same health facility is treating Sangita Baidya (40) from Mangal Bazaar who had fractured her leg.
The National Seismological Centre had recorded the aftersh*ck, the 447th of m@gnitude 4 or above since last year’s m@gni*ude-7.6 qu@ke, at 7:05 this evening with the epicentre in Bhainsepati of Lalitpur.