Hikmat Khatri, 28, from Pachui of Belauri Municipality-8 here died of dengue infection last night.
Ward No 8 Chairman of Belauri, Bisham Ram Rana, informed that Khatri breathed his last during treatment at Nova Hospital of Dhangadhi in Kailali.
Khatri, who had come home from India last week witnessed severe fever and got admitted to the hospital. It is not ascertained whether he had dengue before returning home, Chairman Rana informed.
Rana has urged all people in the municipality to participate in the search and destroy campaign against dengue-transmitting mosquitoes.
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