A man went missing after falling off a tuin in Darchula district today.

He is Singhdal Singh Bhandari, 45, of Dumling in Byas Municipality in Darchula district, according to Dhiran Singh Budhathoki, Chairperson of ward no 2 in Byas Municipality.

Budhathoki shared that Bhandari was going to India by crossing the Mahakali River in tuin at 1:30 pm. He suddenly fell off the tuin and went missing in the Mahakali River, he said.

District Police Office, Darchula’s police inspector Gyanendra Bahadur Singh shared that a team of police has left for incident site to search and rescue Bhandari.

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