GULMI: Two persons, including former lawmaker Rudra Mani Sharma Bhandari, died in a jeep accident in Gulmi.

The other deceased, an eight year-old, has been identified as Waskar Biswakarma, police said.

Eight passengers travelling in the jeep have been injured, three critically when the ill-fated jeep bearing registration number Lu 1 Ja 1957 skidded some 100 meters down the road at Paudaimrai-1 of Musikot municipality this morning.

The vehicle was heading towards Malika rural municipality of Gulmi from Butwal, police informed.

Police said that the injured are undergoing treatment at Tamghas District Hospital.