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Parsa: Child dies after being crushed by a threshing machine

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Birgunj, November 21

An eight-year-old boy has died after being crushed by a threshing machine at Madhavpur, Jagarnathpur rural municipality-6 of the Parsa district in southern Nepal on Saturday night.

The victim has been identified as Om Babu Sah, the son of local Bhuteshwar.

Police say the thresher connected to a tractor (Na 6 Ta 5045) had crushed Ombabu as the tractor was on the road. Seriously injured in the accident, he was taken to the nearby Terai Hospital, where he died during treatment after around 1 hour, according to DSP Om Prakash Khanal, the spokesperson of the District Police Office.

The body has been kept at the Narayani Hospital for postmortem.

Police have confiscated the thresher and the tractor for further investigation. The tractor driver is on the run and police have launched a manhunt.

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