by the bbc's daniel lak, december 2001 [...] Nepal's worst disaster of its horrible year was the massacre of eight members of the royal family on 1 June.... A government inquiry later found that he had turned a gun on himself soon after shooting his father King Birendra, his mother Queen Aishwarya, his sister and brother, uncles and aunts.... No one who was in Nepal at the time will ever forget the sense of doom and grief that seethed through a shocked population on the morning of 2 June. [...]

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