Nepal: Eight Kerala Tourists Including Four Children Die Due To Possible Gas Leak In Resort Room

As many as eight tourists from Kerala including four children who were on a Holiday trip to Nepal were found dead on Tuesday (22 January), reportedly due to a gas leak.

The incident occurred in Everest Panorama resorted located in Daman, Thaha municipality of Makawanpur district in Nepal, reports The Himalayan Times.

The eight tourists were found unconscious in their room and were airlifted to HAMS Hospital in Dhumbarahi, Kathmandu, where they were pronounced dead upon arrival.

The deceased have been identified as Prabhin Kumar Nair (39), Sharanya (34), Renjith Kumar T B (39), Indu Renjith (34) and their children Sreebhadra (9), Abhinav Soorya (9), Abhi Nair (7) , and Vaishnav Renjith (2), reports The New Indian Express.

While the family of Prabhin belongs to Chenkottukonam near Chempazhanthi in Thiruvananthapuram, Renjith and his family hail from Kunnamangalam in Kozhikode.

According to the reports, the victims were part of a group of 15 people travelling to Pokhara from Kerala and were returning home. The victims were reportedly staying in a single room and used the room gas heater to keep themselves warm in the resort. They were found unconscious in the locked suite inside the resort in the morning.

Police were informed of their unconscious state after other members of the group went to check on them this morning, Manager of the resort Shiva KC said.

The police suspect that they died of asphyxiation after inhaling the gas from the gas heater used for warming themselves in the room at night.

Meanwhile, the Indian Embassy officials have reached the hospital where the bodies of the victim were kept for postmortem.