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Village council chief among 6 dead in car crash
Six people, including a rural municipality chairman, died in a car crash at Makalu Rural Municipality-3 in Sankhuwasabha district on Sunday.Six people, including a rural municipality chairman, died in a car crash at Makalu Rural Municipality-3 in Sankhuwasabha district on Sunday.
According to Police Inspector Bed Prasad Gautam, Chairman of Makalu Rural Municipality Khadga Bahadur Katuwal, sociologist Arjun Basnet, engineer Sudip Dhakal, information officer at the District Coordination Committee Subas Chandra Kuinkel, one Suresh Rai of Hedana and the jeep driver died in the crash.
The vehicle (Ba 5 Cha 1309) was heading towards Barun Dobhan from Khandbari, the district headquarters, along the dirt track that was opened just two months ago. Chief District Officer Shivaraj Joshi said the jeep belonged to the central level project implementation unit of the Local Development Ministry.
The jeep had fallen nearly 300 metres down the road, killing all the victims on the spot. Security personnel from Hedana and Syaksila Gola had reached the incident site nearly four hours after the crash and recovered the bodies.