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Police on Sunday carried out a raid at a call centre in Janakinagar of Tilottama Municipality-2, Rupandehi and apprehended nine team leaders including an Indian national for their alleged involvement in defrauding people through various means.

A team deployed from the Area Police Office Butwal raided the Blue Sky Business Solution Pvt. Ltd and detained them for cheating the commoners through phone call and WhatsApp among others, DSP Thug Bahadur KC said.

He said that the team recovered 240 sets of mobile phones, hundreds of computers and other materials from the call centre being operated with an investment of Indian and Chinese nationals.

DSP KC said that they had been cheating and blackmailing people by sending fake messages, obscene pictures and videos of of the victims to the mobile phones of their relatives.

Police are interrogating with 240 staffers working at the call centre.

Rupendahi police said that they are looking into the case.

At least six persons died when a bus met with an accident at Laghuwa in Ribdikot Rural Municipality-2 of Palpa on Sunday.

The identities of the deceased are yet to be established, police said.

The incident occurred when the bus (Lu 1 Kha 5952) heading towards Butwal from Majuwa, Gulmi fell some 100 metres down the road at around 4 pm today.

Further details of the incident are awaited, police said.

Nepal recorded 347 new Covid-19 cases and two deaths on Sunday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 2, 360 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 303 returned positive. Likewise, 1,528 people underwent antigen tests, of which 44 tested positive.

The Ministry said that 95 infected people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours.

As of today, there are 3, 177 active cases in the country.

Among them, 3, 035 are in home isolation and 142 are in institutionalized isolation.

Of the people who are staying in institutionalized isolation, 22 are undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Units and two on ventilators.

Meanwhile, the Kathmandu recorded higest 169 new cases today.

According to the Ministry, 35 cases are reported in Lalitpur, 27 in Kaski and 17 in Morang and 12 in Bhaktapur.

Three persons died when a tree fell on a commuter bus and a scooter at Sallaghari in Bhaktapur on Sunday.

Police said that the tree crushed the moving bus (Ba Kha 3584) heading towards Dudhpati from Thimi and the scooter (Ba 61 Pa 3978) en route to Sallaghari from Dudhpati.

Chief District Officer Rudra Devi Sharma said that 12 others were injured in the incident.

One of the deceased has been identified as Nitesh Kharbuja.

The identities of others are yet to be established.

The injured are receiving treatment at the Yuwamora Hospital, Bhaktapur International Hospital and Madhyapur Hospital, police said.

Meanwhile, Home Minister Balkrishna Khand has directed the chiefs of the security agencies  to rescue the injured.