CHITWAN, March 30: Police ascertained the identity of five persons who died in a car accident this morning in Simaldhara area of Ichchhakamana Rural Municipality-5 along the Prithvi Highway. A person aboard the car is missing, police said.
The accident occurred at 7:15 this morning after the taxi (Ba 2 Ja 4196) heading to Gorkha district from Kathmandu fell some 80 metres off the road in Trishuli river.
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According to police, the deceased have been identified as Arjun Sirmal, 35, Harimaya Rokaya, 41, Jun Kiri Rokaya, 71, Anjan Rokaya, 28, and nine-year-old Agaman Nagarkoti from Gorkha Municipality-7, Gorkha. Eighteen-year-old Dibas Rokaya is missing in the river.
Chief of Chitwan District Police Office Bhabesh Rimal said all those killed in the accident were returning home after completing a family event in Kathmandu.
