One person has gone missing when an excavator overturned while bridging the Karnali river in Kalikot. 40-year-old Kusmakhar Sanjyal, co-driver of the excavator, has gone missing. Although the police are searching, they have not been found till Saturday evening. The driver Namraj Malla was rescued by the locals.

Excavator No. BA2K 5986 overturned on Friday evening from Pachaljharna-8 Chatebagar to Ward-4 Jarkot in Calikot. The excavator was being taken to dig the road. A video of a person drowning after an excavator overturned has now become public on social media.

Local eyewitness Prakash Sejuwal said that the co-driver Kusmakhar disappeared as soon as he was spotted about 200 meters down. Acting Chief Inspector of District Police Kalikot Gobind Chaudhary informed that the police have been mobilized in the lower coastal area of ​​Karnali to search for the missing persons.

"There are no tools and equipment that can enter the water, it is not easy to search by drowning in cold water," he said, "we are searching together with the locals." 

Kusmakhar left his 4-year-old son Vivash on the river bank. On Friday morning, after Vivash insisted that he would go with his father, Kusmakhar, carrying his son on his shoulder, fell to Chatebagar in the Karnali Corridor, which is an hour away from home.

The father insisted that he should not leave the house. It is the last day of the son with the father," Kusmakhar's wife Gaura said, "No one has been found alive who drowned and disappeared here. Now there is no hope of finding him alive, even if he found the dead body, he has 3 daughters and 1 son. 

Pachaljharna-Siku, Khayrkot, Lafa, Khardu, Jarkot, Rasnakot and Bajkot villages in Wards 1 to 5 are suffering because there is no bridge across the Karnali river. Sri Hirachan-Caravan Superstar JV took the contract from Infrastructure Development Office in 2077 to build a concrete bridge at Jarkot at a cost of 130 crores.