Hetauda, Jan. 21 -- Eight Indians, including four children, who were found unconscious at a resort in Makwanpur on Tuesday morning have died.

The Indians were rescued from Panorama Resort at Simbhanjyang, Daman in Makwanpur, and flown to Hams Hospital in Kathmandu, where doctors pronounced them dead.

Fifteen Indian tourists had booked two rooms at the resort on Monday night at 10 pm. Eight of them-four males and four females-were in the same room.

Makwanpur police said they might have fallen unconscious due to asphyxiation.

The resort staff had called police after they found the Indian tourists unconscious in their room. A helicopter was flown in from Kathmandu to airlift them.

The Indians have been identified as Prabin Kumar Nayar, ...