Six persons from single ward killed in Nainital road accident

Six persons from single ward killed in Nainital road accident

Mahendranagar (Kanchanpur), April 9: Six persons are from Baijanath Rural Municipality-8 in Banke district out of seven Nepalese killed in a road accident happened at Betalghat of Nainital district in India on Monday night.

The deceased are Dhiraj Tharu, Bishram Tharu, Antaram Tharu, Binod Tharu, Tilakram Tharu and Udayram Tharu, Chairman of Baijanath Rural Municipality-8 Bhagan Tharu told the RSS.

According to ward chair Bhagan, the villagers who had gone to India to India for jobs were returning home to mark the Nepali New Year 2081 BS.

Bhagan added that two more were injured.

The relatives and kin of the deceased persons have left for India after the incident.

The accident occurred when a rented vehicle fell some 150 meters off the road while loading goods in course of coming to Tanakpur. They had been working there to lay pipelines along the roadside around the incident site.