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8 Indian tourists die after falling unconscious at Nepal hotel

January 21, 2020
Hospital staff observe as the bodies of eight Indian tourists who died due to suspected suffocation are carried inside an ambulance while being taken for postmortem in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Wednesday. — Courtesy photo
Hospital staff observe as the bodies of eight Indian tourists who died due to suspected suffocation are carried inside an ambulance while being taken for postmortem in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Wednesday. — Courtesy photo

KATHMANDU — Eight Indian tourists, including four children, have died after they were found unconscious in their room at a hill resort in Nepal on Tuesday, police said.

The eight — two couples and their children — had slept in one room at a hotel in Daman, a popular tourist destination in Makwanpur district about 55 km (34 miles) from Kathmandu.

"They were found unconscious this morning and airlifted to Kathmandu but died during treatment," police spokesman Shailesh Thapa Chettri said.

The families, from the southeastern state of Kerala, used a gas heater in their room to keep warm, a district official said.

"We suspect they died of suffocation, but autopsy reports will confirm the cause," Chettri added.

India is Nepal's biggest source of tourists, making up some 16 percent of visitors to the Himalayan nation. — AFP


January 21, 2020
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