Cancer hospital staff found dead

Kathmandu: A staff of the BP Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital in Bharatpur has been found dead. Surya Mishra,32, a resident of Simara was found dead in the canal that passes through the hospital, according to District Police Office, Chitwan.

Mishra had been working for the hospital since the past 11 years as an electrician. His body was found on Saturday and is taken to Bharatpur hospital for a post-mortem. Hospital’s Executive Director Dr Dej Kumar Gautam has said that the incident looks like a murder and called for thorough police investigation into it.

Meanwhile, a person has been electrocuted in Bharatpur municipality-3. A resident of Mayagadhi rural municipality-8 in Palpa, 27-year-old Prem Rana was working at a block industry in Bharatpur.

He was electrocuted while drying clothes inside the Trishakti Concrete and Block Company premises on Saturday, spokesperson of District Police Office, Chitwan Surya Thapa said. Seriously injured in the incident, Rana died during treatment at Bharatpur hospital.