KATHMANDU, Jan 21, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Eight Indian tourists, including four
children, have died after they were found unconscious in their room at a hill
resort in Nepal on Tuesday, police said.
The eight — two couples and their children — had slept in one room at a
hotel in Daman, a popular tourist destination in Makwanpur district about 55
kilometres (34 miles) from Kathmandu.
“They were found unconscious this morning and airlifted to Kathmandu but
died during treatment,” police spokesman Shailesh Thapa Chettri told AFP.
The families, from the southeastern state of Kerala, used a gas heater in
their room to keep warm, a district official told AFP.
“We suspect they died of suffocation, but autopsy reports will confirm the
cause,” Chettri added.
India is Nepal’s biggest source of tourists, making up some 16 percent of
visitors to the Himalayan nation.