Surkhet, July 2 -- Police have rescued a passenger found unconscious on a cliff after a passenger microbus fell around 400 metres from the Karnali Highway into the Karnali river in Dailekh district on Thursday.

The Force microbus (Karnali Province 02-001 Kha 10055), travelling from Birendranagar, Surkhet, to Raskot in Kalikot, plunged into the Karnali river from the Sangetada (Chisapani) area of ward 7 of Chamunda Bindrasaini Municipality in Dailekh.

Deputy Superintendent of Police Shrawan Kumar BK, chief of the District Police Office, Dailekh, said a passenger found unconscious on a cliff was rescued.

Senior Superintendent of Police Santosh Singh Rathaur, spokesperson for the Karnali Province Police Office, said the vehicle operated b...