A 37-year-old man died on the spot when the Jumbo truck he was driving veered off the road yesterday. The incident took place at 1 p.m. in between Wangkha and Chhukha Check post. The other two passengers aged 22 and 25 also succumbed to injuries. While one of them died at Chhukha BHU yesterday evening, the other died this morning at the National referral hospital.
The Police are investigating the cause of the accident.
Meanwhile, the Dzongkhag Kidu Office at Thimphu on behalf of the Office of Gyalpoi Zimpon, granted His Majesty’s Semso of Nu.10,000 each to the relatives of the deceased today.