Devotees stood in line stretching to all the possible corner and turnings circumnutating the Basantapur Durbar Square while he-goat and he-buffalo continued to be sacrificed on the open square in front of Gaddhi Baithak.
As in the festival of Sharadiya Navaratri begins, temples across the country witnessed a surge of devotees coming together to celebrate the fifth day of the nine-day festival dedicated to worshipping Goddess Durga.