Nepali Times has pieced together this chronology of four days in June based on exclusive interviews with high-level sources, eyewitnesses and testimonies included in the probe panel report.

The army jeep with red lights flashing banged into two cars on the street as it careened past the Bagmati Bridge intersection and pulled into Norvic hospital at about 2200 hrs on the night of 1 June.

Perhaps in the darkness of the night, sorcerers still meet to change metal into stone and water into burning oil.