Hetauda, Aug. 18 -- One person was killed, and five others were injured when a jeep belonging to a court crashed at Jurikhet in ward 6 of Bhimphedi Rural Municipality along the Hetauda-Bhimphedi-Kulekhani road on Tuesday morning.

Six people, including Gokarna Dangi, chief judge of the Janakpur High Court's Birgunj bench, were travelling in the Scorpio jeep when it struck a road divider in Jurikhet and plunged about 50 metres down the slope.

The jeep was heading from Kathmandu to Hetauda. The injured were airlifted to the Nepali Army Hospital in Chhauni, Kathmandu, in a military helicopter, according to the District Police Office, Makawanpur.

Laxmi Badu, 49, died while receiving treatment. Dangi, Rita Badu and Ritendra Badu are undergoi...