Six killed as jeep plunges off Kaligandaki Corridor road in Gulmi

Six people were killed and three injured when a Scorpio jeep left the Kaligandaki Corridor road and fell about 250 metres at Dabaukhani, in Kaligandaki Rural Municipality-2 of Gulmi district, on Monday afternoon (October 26), according to the District Police Office in Gulmi.

The jeep was carrying passengers from Syangja district towards Rakse in Gulmi. The Kathmandu Post and Newspolar reported that the crash happened at around 4 pm.

Five people died at the scene and a sixth died while being treated at Kaligandaki Community Hospital in Mirmi, police said, as reported by The Rising Nepal and Newspolar. Republica's first report put the toll at five; later reports from The Kathmandu Post, The Rising Nepal, Himal Press and other outlets gave it as six.

DSP Birendra Bishwakarma, the information officer at the Gulmi police office, identified the dead as the driver, Dilip Kumar Bagale, 67, of Waling Municipality-2 in Syangja; Shiva Parajuli, 60, of Waling-10; Loknath Pandey, Sita Pandey and Kulananda Pandey, from Sirkot in Kaligandaki Rural Municipality-1, Gulmi; and Nita Bagale of Waling-2, Newspolar reported.

The injured are Chhabilal Pandey and Gomata Pandey of Kaligandaki Rural Municipality-1 and Balkrishna Subedi of Waling-10. Police told The Rising Nepal that one of the injured had been referred to Mission Hospital in Palpa for further treatment; The Kathmandu Post named him as Chhabilal Pandey.

Police said the cause of the crash is under investigation.