KASKI: Two people have died and seven others have sustained injuries when a jeep they were traveling in met with an accident at Yamdi on the Pokhara-Baglung highway on Saturday evening.
Nine people were traveling in the jeep (Ba 2 Cha 7410) heading towards Pokhara Bazar from Hemja. It veered off the road and fell some 25 meters from the road.
Prakash Pun, 50, and Chitra Pun, 52, of Pokhara Metropolitan City-10, who were critically injured in the accident, died in course of treatment on Saturday night, the District Police Office Kaski said.
Prakash died at the Western Regional Hospital while Chitra breathed his last at the Manipal Hospital in Pokhara. The injured are receiving treatment at Sahara Hospital.
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