A US citizen died after falling off a cliff while visiting Manang, a mountainous district. The victim is 69-year-old Charles Keith Davis.
He was going to Chame from Lamjung in a jeep 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 Besisahar-Chame road section. He fell some 100 metres down onto the Marsyangdi River bank, according to Deputy Superintendent of Police, Phanindra Ranabhat.
A police team mobilised from the District Police Office, Chame rushed him to District Hospital after rescuing him in the same night, but the foreign traveller breathed his last during treatment.
Davis' lifeless body has been sent to TU Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu for postmortem, the police added. ----
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