As many as seven people died and 12 others were injured in separate road accidents in Sindhupalchok, Bara, Dang and Salyan districts on Wednesday.

A jeep swerved off the road and plunged into the Andheri stream some 200 metres below at Sakhuwapari of Bahrabise Municipality in Sindhupalchok, killing two people and injuring four others. According to Police Inspector Devendra Raj Joshi at Bahrabise Area Police Office, Dil Kumari Pradhan, 40, and Lal Kumari Pradhan, 42, of Ghumthang died in the incident. They died on the spot, said police.

Three passengers with serious injuries have been referred to the National Trauma Centre in Kathmandu while driver Bikram Thapa sustained minor injuries in the incident. The driver has been detained and is under investigation, said police.

All the injured hail from Ghumthang settlement in ward 7 of Bahrabise Municipality.

In Bara, a truck heading to Hetauda from Simara and a pickup truck collided head-on along the Simara-Hetauda road section killing two people, including an Indian national, and injuring three others.

The identity of the deceased is yet to be ascertained, said Deputy Superintendent of Police Pradip Bahadur Chhetri. The injured are being treated at LS Neuro Hospital in Parwanipur, said Chhetri.

Similarly, two people died when a motorcycle collided with a jeep in ward 16 of Ghorahi Sub-metropolitan City in Dang district. The deceased are a 24-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man from ward 5 of Triveni Rural Municipality in Rolpa district.

According to Deputy Superintendent of Police Janak Bahadur Malla, who is also an information officer at the Dang District Police Office, the duo succumbed to injuries while receiving treatment at the Ghorahi-based Rapti Institute of Health Sciences.

Police have detained the jeep driver, Nirmal Budha, 29, from ward 2 of Triveni Rural Municipality in Rolpa district, said Malla.

In Salyan, a man died after a motorcycle and a tipper truck collided at Bagchaur Municipality in the district. The 46-year-old man of ward 12 of Bagchaur Municipality who was airlifted to the Kathmandu-based Grande Hospital by a helicopter, died, said

Police Inspector Bhawani Prasad Dhamala, spokesman for the District Police Office, Salyan.

Likewise, five people were injured when a jeep heading for Jajarkot from Nepalgunj overturned at Bangad Kupinde Municipality.

With input from Durgalal KC in Dang and Biplab Maharjan in Salyan.