Student leader dies of electric shock in Hetauda

HETAUDA: CPN (Unified Socialist) Party’s Hetauda Sub-Metropolitan City Secretary and All Nepal National Free Students Union (ANNFSU) Central Committee member Girija Adhikari died of electric shock on Monday.

The incident occurred when he came in contact with a naked wire during the road construction works at Rajdevi in Hetauda Sub-Metropolitan City-17 this morning.

Adhikari was rushed to the Madan Bhandari Academy of Health Sciences Hospital in Hetauda but breathed his last during the course of treatment, Medical Superintendent of the Hospital Dr Ramchandra Sapkota said.

Preparations are underway to handover the body to his family members after conducting postmortem, Jayashwor Rimal, spokesperson of the District Police Office, Makwanpur said.