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Kathmandu Tuesday November 06, 2001 Kartik 21, 2058.
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SAF Games medallist attacked
Post Report
BIRGUNJ, Nov 5 – A bronze medallist in the
8th South Asian Federation (SAF) Games, heavy weight wrestler Bramhadev Yadav, escaped an
attempt on his life as seven masked men attacked him brutally on Sunday.
Yadav, who is now admitted to the local Narayani
hospital, told The Kathmandu Post that the assailants charged at him with sticks when he
was on his way home at 8pm on Sunday on his bicycle carrying a 13-year-old boy, son of a
neighbour.
"They were 7-8 in number, who were hiding
in a rice field about 2km to the east of the main city and they attacked me all of a
sudden," he said. "One of them even fired with his gun at me but luckily I got
away with that."
Yadav also said that he was carrying Rs 27,000
with him but the besiegers did not intend to loot the money. Yadav said that the attackers
were all masked but he could recognise one of them. He has identified one of the offenders
as his neighbour Hari Narayan Shah, however, he says that he does not know the reason
behind the attack.
Yadav received 30 stitches on his head at the
hospital and regained consciousness following the treatment that lasted two hours. He had
fled the scene after receiving severe injury on his head and other parts of the body. He
said that he somehow got the courage to flee as he heard one of the assailants shout:
"He must be killed."
The main worry for Yadav now, he says, is his
training regimen, which consisted of 3-4 hours of workout. He is the heavy weight national
champion and was selected into national squad for the 9th SAF Games slated to be held in
Islamabad.
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