MAHOTTARI, Jan 7: Nepali Congress (NC) Mahasamiti Member Lalan Kumar Raya was killed today in a road accident happened at Tuteshwor Chowk in Bardibas Municipality-5, Mahottari district.
The 58-year-old NC leader was critically injured after a sugarcane-laden stationary truck (Na 4 Kha 5813) was hit by a bus (Na 5 Kha 6411) en route to Kathmandu at 5:00 am, Superintendent of Police Shyam Krishna Adhikari said.
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Raya was rushed to Janakpur for the treatment after the incident but was referred to Nobel Hospital in Biratnagar where the doctors pronounced Raya as dead at 9:00 this morning, Raya's relative Asim Dube said.
In the mishap, 18 other NC cadres and the general public were injured and receiving treatment at different hospitals in Bardibas.
