Nepal

One succumbs to injuries

One succumbs to injuries

By Himalayan News Service

Jhapa, August 20 An elderly person, who had been seriously injured after he was attacked  on the head with a hammer, died last evening. Sixty-five-year-old  Prem Lakandri of Jhapa’s Mechi Nagar Municipality-9 Krishi settlement was seriously injured after a fellow villager Tej Bahadur  Limbu, 63, who was drunk, hit him on the head with a hammer on  Friday. Lakandri died at Birtamod-based B & C Hospital in the course  of treatment. Police have arrested Tej Bahadur and said they were  yet to  find out the reason behind the fatal attack.