POKHARA: A foreign national has died at Lakeside, Pokhara Metropolitan City-6.

He is 66-year-old Kescheng Tek of Singapore, the Gandaki State Police said.

Tek had arrived here on Wednesday and stayed at Hotel White Pearl at Lakeside. He was rushed to the West Regional Hospital after he did not respond when his wife Ping Pek Ing tried to wake him up this morning.

But doctors declared him dead moment after he was brought to the hospital. Police have initiated an investigation into the incident.