A US national died after falling off a cliff in Manang, a mountainous district.

The deceased has been identified as Charles Keith Davis (69).

He was heading towards Chame from Lamjung in a jeep (Ba 6 Cha 756) on Wednesday night. He was together with his spouse, guide, driver and porter.

Davis suddenly fell from the road while he was trying to remove a rock from the road at Khotrodanda of Naso Rural Municipality-3 along the Beshisahar-Chame road section.

He fell some 100 meters down the road into the Marsyangdi River bank, according to Deputy Superintendent of Police, Phanindra Ranabhat.

A police team mobilized from the District Police Office, Chame rushed him to the District Hospital after rescuing him in the same night, but he breathed his last during the course of treatment.

The body has been sent to TU Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu for postmortem, police added.