DAMAK: Two people have died in an ambulance-auto rickshaw collision in Damak municipality of Jhapa district on Monday morning.
According to District Traffic Police Office, Jhapa, auto rickshaw driver Birendra Budhathoki, 50, of Urlabari municipality-4, Morang and a passenger Ramesh Shrestha of Jhapa, who was travelling in it, died on the spot at 9:45 am.
The accident took place when an ambulance, Me 1 Cha 1246, heading to west, ferrying a post-partum woman, collided head-on with an auto-rickshaw coming from the opposite direction at Tarabari road section along the East-West Highway.
Other tree people sustained injuries in the accident. Police said they are investigating the case.
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