Seven-year-old dies, five injured in accident

Sunsari, Nov 12: A seven-year-old girl was killed and seven others were injured when a motorcycle, a scooter and a bicycle collided at Balaha of Inaruwa Municipality-5 in Sunsari on Wednesday evening. Sunsari District Police Office's information officer Chandra Bahadur Khadka confirmed that death of seven-year-old Ridima Sardar of Inaruwa-9 in the accident.

She was riding pillion on the scooter ( Pra 1-02-055) involving in the accident. Severely injured in the accident, the girl died while undergoing treatment, Scooter rider Sujan Chaudahry, 30, of Inaruwa-7, motorcyclist Sagar Sardar,22, of Duhabi Municipality-3, pillion riders Abhinaya Sardar, 24, and Ayush Sardar,11, and cyclist Indrajeet Mandal, of Inaruwa-5 were injured in the accident and are undergoing treatment at the Biratnagar-based Birat Nursing Hospital in Morang.

Further investigation into the accident is underway, it is said. (RSS) The Rising Nepal is Nepal’s first English broadsheet daily published by the Gorkhapatra Corporation, an undertaking of the Government of Nepal.