Eight people have died in an accident in Rautahat district.
According to Deputy Superintendent of Police Deepak Kumar Raya at District Police Office, Rautahat, eight people died when a vehicle (Ba 16 Cha 3162) veered off the road and hit a tree by the roadside on the Dhansar-Lamaha section of the East-West Highway in Chandrapur Municipality-4 around 1:00 AM Tuesday.
The deceased include 60-year-old Laruwati Devi Mahara, 30-year-old Urmila Mahara, 50-year-old Ram Kumari Mahara, 55-year-old Mahagin Devi Mahara, 62-year-old Phulmanti Devi Chamar, 60-year-old Ram Kumari Devi Mahara, and 30-year-old Shakuntala Devi Mahara of Banthiya Tole in Arnama Rural Municipality-3, Siraha. All of them were returning home after attending the Gadhimai Fair.
Similarly, 40-year-old driver Shree Kumar Yadav of Baluwa Tole, Arnama-5, died in the accident.
Five others were injured in the accident. Police said that one of them is in a critical condition. Sixty-year-old Kanya Devi Mahara has been referred to Vayodha Hospital in Birgunj for further treatment.
The bodies of all eight deceased have been taken to the government hospital in Chandrapur. The vehicle has been impounded and taken to District Traffic Police Office, Chandrapur.
A police team under the command of DSP Raj Kumar Rai from Area Police Office, Chandrapur, and Inspector Lokendra Adhikari, chief of District Traffic Police Office, Rautahat, was deployed after the police received call regarding the accident on Tuesday morning.
According to police, preliminary investigation has shown that the driver of the vehicle could have fallen asleep.
