October 6: A US citizen has died after falling off cliff while visiting Manang, a mountainous district. The victim has been identified as 69-year-old Charles Keith Davis.    
He was traveling to Chame from Lamjung in a jeep (Ba 6 Cha 756) on Wednesday night when the incident occurred. He was together with his spouse, guide, driver and porter.    
Davis suddenly fell from the road when he was trying to remove a rock from the road at Khotrodanda of Naso Rural Municipality-3 along the Beshisahar-Chame road section. He fell some 100 meters down onto the Marsyangdi River bank, according to Deputy Superintendent of Police, Phanindra Ranabhat.    
A police team mobilized from District Police Office, Chame rushed him to District Hospital after rescuing him the same night, but the foreign traveler succumbed to his injuries during treatment.    
Davis' body has been sent to TU Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu for postmortem, the police added. -- RSS