Deputy Superintendent of Police at the District Police Office, Tanahun, Shravan Kumar BK, informed that the identities of 41-year-old Narayan BK, a resident of Shuklagandaki Municipality-11, and 58-year-old Deumaya Thapa, a resident of Bhagar, Bhimad Municipality-8, who were found dead on Saturday, were confirmed on Sunday.
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Tanahun Police have identified two of the three people found dead near the garbage processing center in Kaseri, Shuklagandaki Municipality-5, Tanahun last Saturday.
Police have identified two of the three people found dead and the bodies have been handed over to their relatives after post-mortem examination, while one person has yet to be identified.
Narayan Bik, 41, of Shuklagandaki Municipality-11, and Deumaya Thapa, 58, of Bhagar, Bhimad Municipality-8, who were found dead on Saturday, were identified on Sunday, said Shravan Kumar Bik, Deputy Superintendent of Police at the District Police Office, Tanahun. Police suspect that all three people were murdered. He said that further investigation is underway into the incident.
Three bodies were found in the district's Shuklagandaki Municipality on Saturday in a gruesome manner. The bodies of two men and a woman were found about 700 meters away in Kaseri, Shuklagandaki-5. Narayan Bik, who was working as a guard at a waste processing center, was identified on Saturday.
Similarly, the police have said that a man who was said to have been living with the woman whose body was identified on Sunday has not been identified. They are said to be husband and wife and have been living together in a tent outside the processing center.
Locals have said that the woman and man used to collect garbage from the market area of Shuklagandaki Municipality.
Similarly, according to Chief Police Inspector Dhan Narayan Shrestha of the Area Police Office Bel Chautara, since the nature of the incident is suspicious, a technical team including Chief Superintendent of Police Tek Bahadur Karki of the District Police Office Tanahun and a team with trained dogs have taken forward the on-site study and investigation.
