26 deaths in two months have locals worried
Deaths of as many as 26 people in the past two months have left locals of the Satbariya settlement in Pokhariya Municipality-4, Parsa, worried, prompting them to seek some sort of divine intervention to protect them. Villagers here have even started visiting temples and offering prayers to invoke “God’s mercy”. “We don’t know who will die next,” said an anxious Rajeshwor Thakur, a local. Villagers said so many funeral rites had to be performed in the past two months that they were running out of firewood. According to them, people of different age groups–children, youths, adults and elderly—have died...
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