The death toll from the Nuwakot jeep accident reached three on Friday evening after a passenger succumbed to injuries while undergoing treatment.

Deputy Superintendent of Police Khagendra Bahadur Khadka, who is also the information officer of Nuwakot District Police Office, said a 45-year-old woman died while undergoing treatment at the Kathmandu-based National Trauma Centre.

Two people died on the spot and 10 others were injured in a jeep accident at Dupcheshwar Rural Municipality.

According to Khadka, a 25-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl from the rural municipality died on the spot.

The jeep skidded off the road and fell some 400 metres at ward 4 of the rural municipality. The injured were sent to Kharanitar Hospital and Kathmandu for treatment

A total of 13 people were travelling in the jeep.