A person died of dengue infection in Kanchanpur on Monday.
The deceased has been identified as Hikmat Khatri (28) of Pachui of Belauri Municipality-8.
Belauri Municipality Chairman Bisham Ram Rana said that Khatri breathed his last during the course of treatment at the Nova Hospital of Dhangadhi in Kailali last night.
Khatri, who had come home from India last week, suffered high fever following which he was rushed to the hospital.
It is not ascertained whether he had dengue before returning home, Chairman Rana said.
Rana has urged all people in the municipality to participate in a search and destroy campaign against dengue-transmitting mosquitoes.
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