Dang/bara, Feb. 21 -- As many as seven people died and 12 others were injured in separate road accidents in Dang, Bara, Sindhupalchowk and Salyan districts on Wednesday.

In Dang, two people died when a motorcycle collided with a jeep at Ghorahi Sub-metropolitan City-16. The deceased are a 24-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man from Triveni Rural Municipality-5 of Rolpa district.

According to Deputy Superintendent of Police Janak Bahadur Malla, who is also an information officer at Dang District Police Office, the duo succumbed to injuries while receiving treatment at the Ghorahi-based Rapti Institute of Health Sciences.

Police have detained the jeep driver, Nirmal Budha, 29, from Triveni Rural Municipality-2 of Rolpa district, said Ma...