Patan (Lalitpur), May 1: Another person also breathed his last in an attempt to douse a fire broke out at Tapeshwor Community Forest in Godavari Municipality-4, Badikhel.
He died while undergoing treatment
at the Kirtipur-based Burn Hospital. Shankar and Ramesh Pahari were seriously
injured when they went to contain the forest fire.
Shankar died on Tuesday while
Ramesh died this morning, Superintendent of Police at the District Police
Range, Lalitpur, Naresh Raj Subedi, told RSS.
The fire broke out in community
forests of Godavari municipality-6, Tikabhaira, Mahadev Khola Satya community
forest of ward 5, Tapeshwar temple's forest of ward 4, Badikhel, Chheda
Community forest of ward 9, Jayabhadra community forest of ward 3, Charghare
community forest, ward 10, SP Subedi shared.
He further informed that the fire
also caught Dhungeni Patle community forest, Taplechap community forest of ward
2, government forest at Kundulle of Bagmati Rural Municipality-5 and Lubhu
Patle Community Forest of Mahalaxmi Municipality-3 since last night. (RSS)