KATHMANDU, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Five people died on Thursday night in traffic accidents involving two sport utility vehicles in far-western Nepal.
Four people, including a driver, were killed in Bajhang district after an SUV veered off the highway.
"Three of them were killed on the spot and a five-year-old girl succumbed to her injuries while being taken to the hospital," Lokendra Singh Thagunna, a police inspector at the district police, told Xinhua on Friday.
In a separate accident, a driver was killed after another SUV fell off a cliff in another place in the district.
Hundreds of people lose their lives in traffic accidents each year in Nepal. Enditem
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