KATHMANDU: A man died of asphyxiation he suffered inside a well while he was cleaning the water source, in Thapagaun of Kathmandu on Saturday. The 45-year-old Arjun Budhathoki was deployed by Suyash Pratap Sen to clean his 25-foot well in his compound in Thapagaun, KMC-10 today. Budhathoki was a permanent resident of Ramechhap district, currently residing in Gokarna of the Capital. After receiving information that he had fallen unconscious underground, a police team deployed from the Baneshwor-based Metropolitan Police Circle had reached the incident site. He was rescued with a rope and rushed to the Civil Service Hospital, where he died during treatment, informed police.