INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU, AUGUST 31
A man, who had fully recovered from coronavirus, suddenly vandalised an ambulance that was ferrying him home from
hospital, fearing that he was being abducted.
The incident occurred last night at 10:00pm
The ambulance from Balambu-based Armed Police Forces COVID special hospital was carrying the 24-year-old man to his home after his
But on the way home, he suddenly behaved strangely and started vandalising the moving ambulance from inside.
The man is a resident of
Bhaktapur Municipality.
Looking at the mans violent behaviour, the ambulance driver had to stop the vehicle, but as soon as the vehicle
stopped, the man broke the windowpane and jumped out of the ambulance
He started vandalising the ambulance more fiercely.
DSP Chakra Raj Joshi of Jagati Police Circle said that the man approached them and
sought help stating that he was being abducted by the driver of the ambulance.
Jhalak Kumar BC was driving the ambulance
According to police, the driver was a complete stranger to the man and he had no idea why the man behaved in a weird manner.
After some time
police informed about the incident to the family members of the man
The family members said he had no mental health problems and he might have behaved in such manner due to the mental trauma he had to go
through in the isolation ward after being infected with the virus
Police later handed the man over to his family members after they agreed to pay for damages done to the ambulance.
Psychiatrist Dr Sagun
Panta at Tribhuvan Universitys Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj, said although it was difficult to say anything about the case without proper
diagnosis, his violent activities might have been the result of panic attack.
A version of this article appears in e-paper on September 1,
2020, of The Himalayan Times.
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