Bolero jeep from Mugu to Jumla crashes, one dead, six injured

A Bolero jeep traveling from Mugu toward Jumla met with an accident, leaving one person dead. Six others were injured in the crash.

According to the District Police Office, Jumla, the jeep accident occurred at Chauntha in Kanakasundari Rural Municipality-1 on Saturday evening. The jeep was on its way from Mugu toward the Jumla district headquarters.

Police said one person died and six others were injured in the accident. Source reports do not give the names of the deceased or the injured, nor the cause of the accident.

The accident occurred on the Mugu-Jumla road section in Karnali at a time when passenger traffic on the roads had increased during the Tihar period. Police are further investigating the incident.