The jeep, carrying an estimated 12 to 15 passengers, crashed in Kedarsyu Rural Municipality on Wednesday morning. Police have been deployed to the scene.

Crop failures and landslides are driving families to India and elsewhere, and in the process migration is eroding the traditions, skills and community ties that sustained their villages.

The District Hospital in Bajhang has been reeling under an acute shortage of medicine, including life saving drugs and blood bags, due to Tarai banda and India’s unofficial blockade.