Tanahun kid dies of pneumonia

DAMAULI: A fourth grader from Byas of Tanahun district succumbed to pneumonia in Pokhara on Thursday.

The deceased has been identified as Kiran Dair (10) of Shukra Lower Secondary School in Chintutar, Byas Municipality of Tanahun.

Dair was being treated at the Manipal Teaching Hospital, Pokhara, where he breathed his last while undergoing treatment in the ICU for pneumonia, bereaved grandfather Hem Bahadur said.