Four people died when a mound of earth caved in at the Arun III Project site in Sankhuwasabha on Friday.

The deceased have been identified as Pradeep Shahi of Siuna Rural Municipality-4 in Kalikot, Prem Pariyar of Chandannath Municipality-1, Jumla, Budhan Munda from Jharkhand, India and Nanda Kishore from Bihar, India, DSP Shyam Kumar Saru Magar said.

Shahi and Pariyar were manual workers while Munda was operator and Nanda Kishore was hired as the electrician for the project. RSS