Twelve injured in jeep mishap

Karnali, July 28: Twelve passengers have been injured when a jeep they were travelling in met with an accident at Halkandara on the border between Lekbensi Municipality’s Ward No. 5 and 6in Surkeht district.

Thakur Prasad Pokharel, Superintendent of Police and Chief of the District Police Office, Surkhet, said that the passengers were injured when the passenger-carrying Mustang jeep (Bhe 1 Kha 540), traveling from Halkandara Dandagaun to Dasharathpur, overturned on the road at 10 am today on an uphill section of the road.