Surkhet/jumla/dolpa, May 10 -- year-old Kal Bahadur Adhikari of Hima Rural Municipality-6 in Jumla was admitted to the Karnali Academy of Health Sciences Teaching Hospital after his diabetes worsened. Doctors later referred him to Nepalgunj for prostate surgery because his condition could not be managed locally.

His relatives waited the entire day for a scheduled flight from Jumla, but the aircraft never arrived. As his health deteriorated, the family decided to transport him to Nepalgunj in an ambulance arranged by Hima Rural Municipality. The ambulance crashed in Khadachakra Municipality-2 of Kalikot district before reaching its destination. Adhikari's son Bhim Bahadur, 32, and ambulance driver Shakti Bahadur Shahi, 26, died in the acc...