Kathmandu, June 7 :    Kathmandu, June 7:  It was to be one great historic moment - for Nepal, its grief-stricken people and journalists from all parts of the world. In moments, the true story of one of modern history's worst royal massacres would unfold. The narrator: Captain (Dr) Rajiv Shahi, son-in-law of Dhirendra, brother of King Birendra, who was one of the survivors of the tragedy. His story: the first eyewitness account to come on record. The venue: the military hospital at Chhauni, where the dead royals and the injured were brought that bloody night. 'You all know what happened on Friday night (at the palace). I'm here to inform you what happened.' That was how he began his story. Soon the journalists learnt it was to be a very different news conference, called by word of mouth, but at which questions were not to be asked. In course of the news conference, first 20 minutes for foreign scribes and another 15 minutes for local journalists, he walked away to a room, escorted by aides. Here is the story, as told by the Captain, who demonstrated the movements of the royal family members and the happenings on a map sketched on a board . 'I reached the palace around 7.45 (on Friday evening). About 8.15, His Majesty the late King Birendra walked into the hall. The late Crown Prince Dipendra entered very intoxicated. He told me he wanted to talk to his parents. He couldn't walk properly and he stammered. Prince Nirajan, myself and Paras escorted him to the garden. After that we all came into the hall. 'His Majesty was standing here (he points to the sketch). Round about 9 o'clock, I heard a burst of gunfire. First I thought it was some crackers bursting. 'His Majesty is shot, call the doctor,' I heard people shouting. I rushed. His Majesty told me 'I've been shot'. He said 'I've been shot in the stomach as well'. But I didn't see him (Dipendra) shooting.' After the first shot, Dipendra 'went out'. Captain Shahi said he 'being a doctor' rushed to 'His Majesty', took off his 'clothes' and tried to stop the bleeding from his neck where the king was first shot. He told the king not to 'worry'. 'All of a sudden' Dipendra returned to the room. Shahi's father-in-law and the king's brother Dhirendra 'decided to intervene but was shot in the chest'. At this stage, Shahi said he won't be able to show how 'everybody was shot'. But he went on, pointing to one corner of the hall, 'Princess Sharada and her husband Kumar Bikram were shot here'. Next to be shot in the chest was Kumar Gaurav, husband of Shruti and son-in-law of the late King Birendra. 'He told me he was shot and I asked him to lie down.' Dipendra, who was carrying two 'assault rifles', according to Shahi, went out again. Next time he came back into the hall, he allegedly shot dead his sister (Shruti), brother-in-law, uncle and aunt. This time, Captain Shahi claimed to have jumped out of the window to save himself. Dipendra was said to have gone out again and shot the Queen and his younger brother Nirajan in the garden. It was at this stage at the garden that Paras, son of the new King Gyanendra, implored Dipendra 'with folded hands' not to shoot him or the others still living. Dipendra then shot himself. Shahi denied Dipendra had been shot in the back. 'Had it not been for Paras, there would not have been so many survivors.' Shahi said he was still in a 'state of shock' and couldn't count the dead or the survivors right then. He then prepared to take the dead and the wounded to the hospital. 'Dipendra was a murderer and it was cold-blooded murder,' he ended his story, leaving the scribes to swallow their questions in the confusion.