A person died and another one was injured in an accident involving a pick-up jeep here last night.
The vehicle (registration number Na 5 Kha 7645) loaded with vegetables was going towards Salyan from Dang when it met the accident at Chorkhola of Kapurkot rural municipality-3 at around 10 pm on Monday. It fell some 100 meters from the road.
Police have identified the victim as 35-year-old Gorakh Dangi of Bagchaur Municipality-8. He died on the spot. Govinda Chaudhary of Dang, who was traveling in the same vehicle, was injured in the incident. Chaudhary is being treated at the Zonal Hospital Tulsipur.