Word: dipendra
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...docile palace guards, trained more for fawning servitude than martial prowess, had no way of knowing that the Friday-night comings and goings of Nepal's huffy Crown Prince Dipendra, 29, would turn out to be the prelude to a dynastic catastrophe. When the Crown Prince and his cousin Prince Paras, 27, arrived at the palace for the royal family's regular Friday dinner, they were dressed casually in khaki slacks and polo shirts and had already had a few drinks. The two were notorious prowlers of the Kathmandu night-life circuit, regulars at the X-Zone nightclub...
...body was unrecognizable save for the sari she had been wearing. Eight of the victims, including the King, were declared dead on arrival at the Royal Nepal Army Hospital. Five of the six wounded were listed in critical condition. But Shruti had been prophetic when she had admonished Dipendra. The next morning, in a coma and sustained by life-support systems and respirators, the Prince who killed the King was enthroned as King. The Privy Council declared that his uncle, the King's brother Prince Gyanendra, the father of Prince Paras, would serve as regent...
Details of the killings remain limited, as Nepalese tradition and the nation’s constitution place the royal family above official reproach. Government officials have privately identified Dev’s son, Crown Prince Dipendra, as the perpetrator. Dipendra also took his own life in the killing...
Rumors swirled in the Nepalese population, many of whom did not believe any explanations given by the Nepalese government. Many denied that Dipendra was in fact the murderer and suspected that the murders were an effort for another branch of the family to reach the throne...