Khamma Nepali, the ward chairman of Triveni Municipality-1, Bajura, was among the two persons killed in Wednesday night’s jeep accident in the municipality.

Police on Thursday confirmed that Nepali and another passenger Lalsara Buda died when the Chatara-bound jeep (Se 1 Ja 999) crashed several metres down the road on Wednesday night. Eleven others were injured.

In another incident, two people are missing and feared dead after a car plunged into the Kaligandaki river at Raghuganga Rural Municipality-1 in Myagdi district on Thursday.

Police said the Bolero SUV (Lu 2 Cha 2454) was travelling to Beni, the district headquarters of Myagdi, when it fell into the river at around 4 pm. Driver Rabi Khadka and passenger Sabita Pariyar are missing in the incident.