The deceased has been identified as Angel Aryal of Gwadi in Gulmi. Aryal, a third grader at a school in Butwal, was going home on vacation.
Six members of a family from Repdi, Karikot-9 in Syanja were injured in the accident along with the driver and his help. Three of the injured are in critical condition.
The accident occurred when the Gwadi-bound jeep (Ra 1 Cha 61) from Butwal fell 200 meters down the road at Malmul because of thick fog, an eight-month pregnant Manju Somai said. Somai, her three children and sister and brother-in-law were also injured in the accident. She was rescued from a cliff an hour after the accident.
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Gulmi-bound vehicles were stopped at Harthok as the road could not be seen properly owing to rainfall and dense fog. Police said the thick fog had made it difficult to carry out the investigation.
It took the police more than an hour to reach the accident site that lies 15 km away from the Gulmi’s district headquarters Tansen.
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