A labourer died on Thursday afternoon in Makawanpur district after being crushed by a tree he was cutting, marking the second such incident in the district in two days.

According to the District Police Office, 31-year-old Ram Rai, a resident of Morang’s Miklajung Rural Municipality–1 who had been living in Sukhaura, Makawanpurgadhi Rural Municipality–7 died after he was pinned by a tree he was attempting to fell.

The incident occurred while Rai was working on a private plot belonging to local resident Ram Bahadur Moktan in ward 7 of Makawanpurgadhi. He sustained serious injuries and died while undergoing treatment at Makawanpur Cooperative Hospital in Hetauda, police confirmed.

Just two days earlier, a similar incident took place in Bagmati Rural Municipality–3 of the same district, where another worker was killed while cutting down a tree.