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An unidentified body of a man was found inside a parked container at Salakpur in Sundarharaicha Municipality-8 of Morang district on Tuesday.

The body of the man, who appeared to be in his 50s, was found on the front seat of the container (Na 3 Kha 4743) this morning, DSP Deepak Shrestha, spokesperson at the District Police Office, Morang said.

According to locals, the container was parked in the area for the past four days.

DSP Shrestha said that a team from the Area Police Office, Belbari under the leadership of Inspector Khagendra Dhamala has already reached the incident site to carry out an investigation.

He assumed that the man may have been the driver or assistant driver of the container.

Further investigation into the case is underway, police said.

Humla, the district enjoying zero infection of coronavirus for nearly eight months, recorded a case of coronavirus infection on Monday.

The District Hospital informed that a person was tested positive for coronavirus.

The 50-year-old man from Simkot Rural Municipality-5 was tested positive for the virus as he showed the symptoms during the treatment, according to Bhakti Phadera from the hospital.

A helicopter carrying CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli made an emergency landing at the Simara Airport on Monday.

Former Prime Minister Oli was heading towards Rautahat from Kathmandu to take part in a program when the chopper belonging to the Simrik Air made the emergency landing due to bad weather this afternoon.

Following the emergency landing, Oli was taken to the special room at the airport.

Nepal reported 934 new Covid-19 cases and one death on Monday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 2, 862 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 498 returned positive. Likewise, 2, 498 people underwent antigen tests, of which 436 were tested positive.

The Ministry said that 470 infected people recovered from the disease.

As of today, there are 5, 686 active cases in the country.