Gulmi. Six people were killed and three injured in an accident involving a Scorpio vehicle in Gulmi. Four men and two women have died.
The accident happened in Kaligand Rural Municipality-2, Dabukhani on Monday at around 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Ved Bahadur Thapa, chairman of the rural municipality of Kaligand, informed that the vehicle carrying pilgrims who had come from Walling in Syangja to visit Hillesiddha met with an accident.
According to him, five people died on the spot in the accident and one person died on the way while being rescued and taken to the hospital. Three people who were injured in the accident are being treated at Kaligandaki Hospital. The identities of the dead and injured have not been revealed.
According to Deputy Superintendent of Police of District Police Office Gulmi, Birendraveer Bishwakarma, the Scorpio vehicle of Gandaki Province BA 0220 was out of control and the accident occurred. After the accident, the vehicle fell down about 250 meters from the road, police said.
After receiving information about the accident, a police team was mobilized for rescue. A team of six people under the command of Police Assistant Inspector Baburam Shrestha from Purtighat Police Station, five people under the command of Police Inspector Gyan Bahadur Majhi from the District Police Office Riddi and 10 people under the command of Deputy Superintendent of Police Vishwakarma from the District Police Office Gulmi have been deployed at the scene.
The accident site is about 6 km south of the police station Purtighat. Police said that more details about the accident are yet to come.