Couple dies as truck knocks down bullock cart

Kailali, March 19: A couple died when a truck knocked a bullock cart at Bajaipur in Kailari Rural Municipality-5 last night. 

Deputy Superintendent at Kailali Police Office, Yogendra Timilsina, said that the deceased have been identified as 60-year-old Kalsu Chaudhary and his 70-year-old wife Setanu Chaudhary. The couple was travelling on the cart when the accident occurred. 

According to him, the Chaudhary couple was critically injured when a truck with registration number Na 6 Kha 778 hit the cart from behind. 

The injured couple was rushed to Seti Provincial Hospital in Dhangadhi, where both of them died during treatment, police reported. 

DSP Timilsina shared that both oxen pulling the cart also died after being hit by the truck. 

The police took under control the truck along with its driver. Further investigation into the accident is underway, police said. (RSS)