Colourful Shivaratri celebration on jampacked Pashupati premises

More than 400,000 people including sadhus, devotees and onlookers estimated to have visited the temple area on Wednesday.

Nearly half a million people visited the Pashupatinath Temple premises in Kathmandu on Wednesday on the occasion of Mahashivaratri, according to police deployed to oversee security in one of the shrine’s biggest annual events.