Four people died after the car they were travelling in was swept away by a flood at Sisnekhola in Dang on Wednesday night.

Chief District Officer Ram Bahadur Kurumbang informed that the car was enroute to Ghorahi from Nepalgunj when it was hit by a flood at Sisnekhola in Gogli in Ghorahi Sub-Metropolitan City.

According to the District Police Office, the bodies of two of the women passengers were recovered soon after the incident last night while the bodies of two other women were recovered from Beluwa, 3-km downstream from the incident site, on Thursday morning.

“The vehicle’s 43-year-old driver of Ghorahi-15 sustained a broken leg and is receiving treatment at Ghorahi-based Rapti Academy of Health Sciences,” informed DSP Mukunda Prasad Rijal, spokesperson at District Police.