Nepali dies of flu in India

ATTARIYA: A Nepali national working in Laxmi Narayan Temple as a priest in New Delhi of India died of swine flu there on Sunday. Navaraj Ojha, 40, of Taranagar in Dhangadhi Municipality-5, died while undergoing treatment at Maharaja Aggarasen Hospital in Delhi. Ojha was taken to the hospital after he suddenly fell sick for the treatment. He had been working there for around 12 years. Final rites of deceased Ojha were performed in Delhi when the hospital refused to send his body to Nepal. ''We could not even touch his body,'' complained his brother Netra Ojha.