Four people dead in separate road accidents


Kathmandu: At least four people were killed in separate road accidents that happened in Doti, Jhapa and Parbat districts. RSS correspondents reported that two youths died in Doti, one in Jhapa and the next one in Parbat after the road mishaps in the respective districts.

Subodh Rokaya, 22, and Kailash BK, 19, of Adharsha Rural Municipality in Doti died after a jeep they were travelling in fell off the road last midnight, Information Officer of District Police Office in Doti Nabraj Dhungel said.

Dhungel said that the jeep (Sudurpaschim Province 01-001 Cha 3923) skidded off the road as the driver lost control over the vehicle. The dead bodies of Rokaya and BK were recovered near Sailikhola, some 900 meters down the road.

Likewise, motorcyclist Sukdev Ganesh, 50, died after a van hit the motorcycle at Kachankabal Rural Municipality-4 in Jhapa last night.

Critically injured Ganesh died while receiving treatment in a health facility in the locality, police confirmed.

Spokesperson of District Police Office in Jhapa Khagendra Bahadur Khadka, said that the motorcycle (BR-11C-3071) heading to Lodhabari from Baniyani in the district was hit by the van (Pra-1-01-002 B 6411) from the opposite direction.

Furthermore, the driver of a jeep (Ga 1 Jha 8029) died after the vehicle fell some 30 metres off the road on the bank of the Kaligandaki river along the Kushma-Phalebas section at Madikuwa of Phalebas Municipality-4 in Parbat district.

Police Inspector Dinesh Poudel confirmed that the jeep driver, 35-year-old Sajjan Pariyar, died in the mishap. The jeep was carrying urea fertilizer from Kusma bazaar to Phalebas Municipality.