KATHMANDU, July 4: A school teacher was attacked with a syringe-like sharp object near Baluwa river in Dhanusha on Thursday.

Madan Adhikari was going to school on a bike when an unidentified young man called him. Adhikari stopped his bike and went to the young man thinking he might be asking for help. But suddenly the man attacked him on his right arm with a sharp pointed object and ran away, reported Republica quoting the school teacher.

The attacker also used vulgar words before pricking him, it further reported adding, the attacker fled the scene on a motorcycle bearing an Indian number plate.

The syringe attack takes place following a wave of syringe attack targeting women that rocked Kathmandu.

On June 27, the Kathmandu Metropolitan Police had detained Santosh Karki for his involvement in carrying out a series of attacks on women in different parts of the capital.

The 30-year-old restaurant owner during the police investigation had said that he used sharp pointed objects instead of syringe to attack women.

He also stated that his motive behind the attacks were not intended to transmit diseases but “just for fun”.

A similar attack had also taken place in Banepa Municipality of Kavrepalanchowk the same week. However, Karki’s connection with syringe attack in Banepa was not established.

Dhanusha District Police have alerted the locals to inform them about the suspicious activities to prevent further similar incidents.

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Syringe attacker Karki attacked women ‘just for fun’

KATHMANDU, June 28: The police Friday made public Santosh Karki, who was detained on Thursday on the charge of carrying out a series of syringe attacks targeting women in Kathmandu.

The 30-year-old said his motive behind the attack on women was ‘just for fun’ but not to transmit any kind of disease. He also denied having used a syringe to attack women.

“I used a thin pointed wood or metallic object to prick the skin of women,” said Karki during the police interrogation. “I did it just for fun.”

Karki owns a restaurant in Maharajgunj.

He used to attack women with pointed objects while returning to his residence in Naikap after closing his restaurant at 10 pm, according to the police.

After the reports of some motorcycle-borne men attacking women with HIV-infected syringes terrorized the city, the Metropolitan police traced Karki examining the CCTV footage and arrested him from Maharajgunj last night.

The attack started on June 1 when a motorcycle-borne unidentified man attacked a woman with a thin sharp object in Kathmandu Metropolitan -16, which was followed by subsequent attacks on June 3 and June 15. Following the attack, a group of women had filed a complaint.

Karki was also been found responsible for two other similar attacks in Dhalkhu and Paknajol.

But his involvement in a similar attack that occurred in Banepa on Wednesday evening has not been established—where a woman accompanied by her daughter became the victim as she was attacked with a syringe-like object while she was walking on the road.

Police have also taken control of the motorcycle Ba 47 Pa 1331 he used the syringe attack.

SSP Sahakul Bahadur Shah said that further investigation is going on in the case.