DOTI: The death toll from Doti jeep accident has reached four as of Sunday morning.
Three died on the spot and one died while being taken for treatment, police said.
Manju Tripathi, Ward Secretary of Bogatan-Phudsil-7, her mother-in-law, and Hari Narayan Bhatt, 40, of KI Singh Rural Municipality died on the spot. They died on the spot when a jeep, Ma 1 Cha 550, met with an accident in Bogatan-Phudsil Rural Municipality-7 of the district, police said.
The death toll reached four after Tripathi’s four-year-old son died on the way to Dipayal for treatment, said Indra Bahadur Malla, Deputy Superintendent of Police, District Police Office, Doti.
Likewise, the injured are the jeep driver Kailash Bam of ward no. 6 of the same municipality, Hemant Bhatt,28, of Bhimduttanagar municipality, Kanchanpur, and Khemadevi Giri, 40, and Tikaram Giri,26, of ward no-7 of Bogatan-Phudsil Rural Municipality.
The jeep reportedly fell some 200 meters below the road. Local police helped with the rescue work, retrieving the bodies and rushing the injured to the nearest medical facility.
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