By Our Correspondent
Sunsari, Dec. 1: Six people were killed in a road accident after an ambulance and a truck collided along the East-West highway at Haripur of Sunsari district at 1:00 a.m. Sunday.
Five of the dead were from the same family from Bokse, Triyuga Municipality-10 of Udayapur district, according to police.
The truck with registration number Na 2 Kha 9082, coming from the west, hit the ambulance with registration number Ko 1 Ta 9364.
At the time of the accident, the ambulance was coming towards Gaighat carrying a body of 75-year-old Shiva Maya Rai who had died in course of treatment at Biratnagar Model Hospital.
All those travelling in the ambulance were killed in the accident, said Mehbub Alam, president of the Ambulance Drivers Association Udayapur.
The deceased were identified as 34-year-old Durgadhan Rai, 28-year-old Tekendra Rai, 50-year-old Tula Bahadur Rai, 35-year-old Uddhav Rai and 32-year-old Dinesh Rai of Bokse in Udayapur district. The ambulance driver, Rajesh Danuwar, of Rajabas, Triyuga Municipality-7 also died in the accident, said Alam.
The District Police Office Udayapur said the bodies of all the victims were kept at Inaruwa Hospital and a search was underway for nabbing the truck driver who was absconding after the accident.