Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of Province No. 2 Rubi Kumari Karna was involved in a car accident at Bishnupur village of Saptari district this evening. Minister of State, Karna, informed that the accident took place when a vehicle (Ja 1 Jha 406) lost control at Bishnupur-7 Canal Chowk. According to Minister of State Karna, the vehicle overturned and entered a field while trying to turn on a narrow road. Her personal secretary Dhruv Kumar Mandal, security guard Constable Tulasi Prasad Sah, driver Bikesh Chaudhary, local CPN-Maoist leader Jay Prakash Chaudhary, and Pratham Lal Ram were in the vehicle along with the Minister.
All the injured have been treated at Chhinnamasta Hospital in Rajbiraj. Dr. Gyanendra Jha said that all the patients were sent home to rest as their condition was normal. A team of the Minister of State, Chhinnamasta VDC-6, Khudibakhari, got information about the murder of 89-year-old Muktilal Mandal. Mandal's body was found a month ago after he was murdered with a sharp weapon at Jhaukharahi Phulbari in Khudibakhari of Chhinnamasta road section.
A team of the Minister of State was going to visit the family of Bhutidevi Yadav, who was also murdered at Chhinnamasta-1 Barhi, Birpur from Mandal's house.
