Manual worker dies of suffocation in 40 feet deep well

Ratnanagar (Chitwan) - A manual worker has died of asphyxiation while cleaning up a well at Gitanagar in eastern Chitwan. 

Ram Kumar Rana, 36, was cleaning up a well located within the residence of one Some Bahadur Loko at Naya Basti of Bharatpur Metropolitan City – 23 on Thursday morning when he died from suffocation. 

Rana was cleaning up a 40 – feet deep well and died due to lack of oxygen, said Superintendent of Police (SP), Deepak Thapa, of District Police Office, Chitwan. His body was retrieved nine hours later at 7 pm. Rana climbed down the well at 9:40 am and became unresponsive within moments. 

A Nepal Army's squad could not climb down below 25 feet due to the severity of the oxygen level after which a disaster relief squad from the Armed Police Force (APF) was called in for help. The manual worker's body has been kept at the Bharatpur hospital for an autopsy.