Himalayan News Service

Jhapa, March 6:

A family in Mechinagar Municipality-2 of Jhapa lost two members within four hours yesterday. Bhima Neupane fainted and died four hours after her mother Tilrupa Khatiwada, 78, died.

Khatiwada died in the morning and her eldest daughter, who reached her mother’s house after three hours, died as she could not bear the grief, witnesses said. Neupane was a heart patient. She was immediately rushed to the Mechi zonal hospital after she fainted. She died in the hospital.