Four dead in Chitwan road accident

KATHMANDU: Four persons died and six others were injured in an accident on the Mugling-Narayanghat road section in Chitwan on Friday morning.

According to the District Police Office, Chitwan, an electric van coming to Narayanghat from Mugling crashed head-on with a passenger bus heading from Narayanghat to Mugling near the 17 Kilo area on Friday.

Three men and one woman died in the accident. One of the deceased has been identified as Raj Bahadur Gurung (42) of Arughat-1 of Gorkha.

The injured are receiving treatment at Bharatpur Hospital and Chitwan Medical College Teaching Hospital.