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Two persons died on the spot and 15 others sustained injuries in a jeep accident at Tunigada in Bajura district on Thursday.

The deceased have been identified as Baja Rokaya (76) and Bijaura Rokaya (75) of Himali Rural Municipality-5 in the district.

According to Amlal Karki, both of them died on the spot.

The jeep (Ba Pra 03001 Ja 0338) belonging to Shahi Travels was heading towards Dhulachaur from Kiudi when the tragedy occurred.

The District Police Office, Bajura said that further details about the incident are yet to come.

District Police Office Information Officer Dev Bahadur Chaudhary said that a team has already headed towards the incident site.

Two teenage girls living in a rented room in Sintitar, Madhyapur Thimi Municipality-9, Bhaktapur were found dead on Thursday.

Menuka Kandel (17) and her sister Sirjana Kandel (15) of Panchapuri Municipality-8, Surkhet were found hanging in the passage of the house that they were living in.

They were living in the ground floor of a two-storey house owned by local Niraj Chakradhar, said DSP Nawaraj Dhungana of the Metropolitan Police Circle, Thimi.

According to Chakradhar, the girls had come to live in the house only two weeks ago.

Police said that further investigation into the incident is underway.

At least 11 people lost their lives to wild animal attacks in Chitwan National Park in the last fiscal year 2024/2025.

The highest number of casualties was due to rhino attacks, with eight people losing their lives to the endangered animal. 

Similarly, two people lost their lives in attacks by elephants and one due to tiger attack, Park’s Information Officer Abinash Thapa Magar said. 

During the same period, 41 people were injured in wild animal attacks. 

Of the injured, 32 were seriously injured and nine suffered minor injuries.

The animals attacked the people, who had gone to collect green fodder, firewood and niguro or fiddlehead fern in the forest inside the Park.

In the last five years, 73 people have lost their lives to wild animal attacks in Chitwan National Park, with 169 people injured.

A woman died of a snake bike at Mohanpur in Krishnasawaran Rural Municipality-6 of Saptari on Thursday.

The deceased has been identified as Sangita Rai (50), wife of Indra Bahadur Rai, said Madhav Prasad Kafle, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Area Police Office, Kanchanpur.