Three women died, and three people are missing after a Tata Sumo jeep travelling from Kathmandu to Khotang plunged into the Sunkoshi river in Sindhuli district early Sunday. According to police, the vehicle, registration number Ko 1 Ja 2976, fell into the river from the Mid-Hill Highway at Nagthan in Phikkal Rural Municipality-6 at around 2:30am, plunging about 200 metres.
Three women killed, three missing as jeep plunges into Sunkoshi