One person died and five others were injured in a road accident in Sunwal Municipality of Nawalparasi (West).

According to the police, the accident occurred after a passenger bus and a car collided head on at Bhumhi along the Parasi-Bhumahi road section, in Sunwal-12.

District Police Office, Nawalparasi informed that the 36-year-old driver of the car, a permanent resident of Arghakhanchi, who was currently living in Madhuvan of Banganga Municipality in Kapilvastu district died following the accident.

Deputy Superintendent of Police Bhojraj Pandey of the District Police Office, Parasi, said that the driver, who was seriously injured in the accident and was brought to Prithvichandra Hospital in Parasi, was pronounced dead by doctors upon arrival.

Police informed that 31-year-old Purna Bahadur Rana and 28-year-old Manoj Kumar Pariyar of Madhuvan in Banganga Municipality; 28-year-old Ganga Godami of Bulingtar Rural Municipality and 18-year-old Dal Bahadur Baral of Kawasoti Municipality in Nawalparasi (East); and 38-year-old Khem Bahadur Reshmi, of Shitaganga Municipality-6 in Arghakhanchi district, currently residing in Saljhandi of Rupandehi district, were injured in the accident.

All injured are being treated at Lumbini Regional Hospital in Butwal.