MANANG, Oct 6: A US citizen died after falling off a cliff while visiting Manang, a mountainous district in Nepal. The victim is 69-year-old Charles Keith Davis.
He was going to Chame from Lamjung in a jeep (Ba 6 Cha 756) on Wednesday night. He was together with his spouse, guide, driver and porter.
Indian tourist dies after falling off a cliff
Davis suddenly fell from the road when he was trying to remove a rock from the road at Khotrodanda of Naso Rural Municipality-3 along the Beshisahar-Chame road section. He fell some 100 meters down onto the Marsyangdi River bank, according to Deputy Superintendent of Police, Phanindra Ranabhat.
A police team mobilized from the District Police Office rushed him to the District Hospital after rescuing him on the same night, but he breathed his last during treatment.
Davis' body has been sent to the TU Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu for a postmortem, according to the police.
