By Our
Correspondent, Salyan, Sept 28: Eight persons have died in the jeep accident at
Mulpani in Kapurkot Rural Municipality-3 along the Rapti Highway early this
morning.
Bipin
Acharya, Chief District Officer of Salyan district, informed that the jeep with
registration number Ra. 1 Ja 563 met with the accident.
Seven men
and a woman travelling on the jeep died on the spot when the jeep slipped some
150 meters down the road.
Most of
the dead are from Kapurkot 6. One injured has been rescued and sent for
treatment.
The
jeep was returning to Kapurkot 6 from Dhakeri of Banke.
The
accident site is some 40 km away from Khalanga, the district headquarters of
Salyan.
Damodar
KC, Chief of the Salyan District Police Office, said preparations were underway
to bring the bodies of those killed in the accident to the district hospital
for post mortem.