US national dies after falling off cliff

MANANG: A US citizen died after falling off a cliff in Manang.

The deceased has been identified as 69-year-old Charles Keith Davis.

He was heading towards Chame from Lamjung in a jeep (Ba 6 Cha 756) on Wednesday night. He was together with his spouse, guide, driver and porter.

Davis suddenly fell from the road when he was trying to remove a rock from the road at Khotrodanda of Naso Rural Municipality-3 along the Beshisahar-Chame road section.

He fell some 100 meters down the road, according to Deputy Superintendent of Police, Phanindra Ranabhat.

A police team mobilized from the District Police Office, Chame rushed him to District Hospital after rescuing him in the same night, but he breathed his last in the course of treatment.

Davis’ lifeless body has been sent to TU Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu for postmortem, the police added.