8 Kearala tourists die in Nepal

Satish  Aditya

Raxaul  (East Champaran, Bihar) : Eight  tourists including four children of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, who were  found unconscious at a resort at Daman, a popular tourist destination in Makwanpur District in Nepal on January 21, 2020, morning, and flown to Hams Hospital at Kathmandu, Nepal, were declared dead by the doctors there, according to Nepal police sources. Daman  is located at an altitude of nearly 2,5000 metres  above the sea level and 111 km away from Raxaul town in East Champaran District in North Bihar.

SP, Makwanpur District, Nepal, Sushil Singh Rathaur, said that these tourists  might have used gas heaters to warm their room which could have suffocated them to death. During investigation, the windows of the room were found closed in night so the police suspects they might have died due to suffocation.

Manager, Panorama Resort, told  police that 15 tourists  had booked two rooms at the resort on January 20, 2020,night at 10 pm. Eight of them –two couples and 4 children were in  a room, died. The Resort staff  informed police after finding them unconscious and a chopper  was flown in from Kathmandu to airlift them.

The deceased were identified as  Ranjit Kumar (39), Indu Ranjit (34), Prawin Kumar Nayar (40), Sharanya (35), Sri Bhadra (9), Abi Nayar (7) ,Avinav Soraya (9), and Vaishwanav Ranjit (2).