A group of Maoist students attacked Naresh Rokaya and Manish Hamal of Prithvi Narayan Campus Pokhara at 9 pm Saturday on the premises of college´s hostel.
Both of them were airlifted to Kathmandu on Sunday due to complications of their injuries. Rokaya got his left arm and both of his legs fractured as well as deep injuries in his head, shoulders and other parts of the body. He was given 40 stitches in his head. Hamal also received critical injuries in the head, arms and legs.
Maoists cordoned the hostel before they attacked them with rods, cricket bats and bamboo batons, according to ANNFSU leader Shivaji Gurung. "Later we found that it was a well-planned attack. When Naresh and Manish sensed Maoist plan, it was too late to escape," Gurung said. According to him, the two were thrown for dead after the merciless attack. "It took at least one hour to find the duo from the place where they were thrown, as they were lying unconscious there."
The Maoist students have owned up to the attack. "They happened to meet with our friends in a state of intoxicated by marijuana on the hostel premises. The situation took a nasty turn only after he abruptly became aggressive against our friends," claimed Amardip Parajuli, chairman of the Maoist student wing -- All Nepal National Independent Student Union-Revolutionary. He said the duo had attacked ANNISU-R members several times in the past.
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