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Two laborers were electrocuted in Birgunj. The deceased have been identified as Saiphullah Ansari (30) of Hariharpur, Dhobini Rural Municipality-3, Parsa and Dhruba Prasad Sah (60) of Ranighat, Birgunj Metropolitan City-9. DSP Ramesh Basnet said that Ansari died when he came in contact with a live wire while working at the house of Ram Kishor Prasad Kurmi in Birgunj-26. Similarly, Sah, who was critically injured after he got an electric shock while cleaning the roof of the house of Satrudhan Sarraff at Bus Park in Birgunj-8, was rushed to the Asharam Hospital but doctors pronounced him dead on arrival, DSP Basnet said. He said that they are looking into both cases.  

A total of 82 tourists- domestic and foreign combined- stranded in Manang, a mountainous district, due to adverse weather have been rescued. Chief of the Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP) Lekhnath Gautam said that the tourists were stranded because of adverse weather caused by incessant rainfall since last Tuesday. Among the total tourists, 73 are foreign and nine domestic ones. The roadways were disrupted due to landslides, so a helicopter was used for rescuing the tourists. The tourists had reached Manang district via the Annapurna trail. They also reached the Himalayan areas of Gorkha and Upper Dolpa.  

The district has recorded 99 cases of dengue infection of late. At least 400 had undergone tests for it. Chief of Health Office in the district Shankar Babu Adhikari said that with the surge of dengue patients, there is a growing shortage of hospital beds. Rajesh Chhetri, an official at the District Hospital, said that 11 persons were tested positive last Saturday alone. Some 200 persons visit the hospital daily for dengue test. Among them, 150 have fever. High fever, severe body ache, nausea are some common symptoms of dengue. The hospital said it was urgent to raise public awareness about dengue. Similarly, Medical Superintendent Abhinandan Tiwari suggested the patients to drink adequate liquid, and use paracetamol to reduce fever.

Various hospitals in Chitwan district report 230 cases of scrub typhus. Health Office, Chitwan said of the infected, 108 are from the district while remaining are from outside Chitwan.  Total tests conducted for the disease were 1,873. Last fiscal year, 286 tests out of 3,286, came positive to scrub typhus. Scrub typhus is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi which is carried by mites and transmitted to humans from their bites. Fever, chills, reddish eyes, coughing, headache, muscle pain, joint pain, rash and a dark, scab-like region at the site of the bite are the symptoms of disease. Similarly, the district reports 1,155 cases of dengue as of today of the current fiscal year. Of them, 799 are within from the district, 299 are from outside the districts and addresses of 177 are yet to be ascertained.