Eight Indian tourists, including 4 children, died while vacationing in Nepal's Himalayas
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Eight Indian tourists, including four children, died Tuesday after they were found unconscious in a hotel room at a mountain resort in Nepal’s Himalayas, officials said.
The group was transported by helicopter to a hospital in the capital city of Kathmandu, where they were pronounced dead, Nepali police official Hobindra Bogati told The Washington Post. Authorities believe the group lit a gas heater to keep the room warm and suffocated. The windows and doors were closed. The room was poorly ventilated, officials told Sky News.
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The eight were members of two families sharing a room at the fully-booked Everest Panorama resort in Daman, the Indian Times reported. They were a part of a group of 15 tourists who traveled to Nepal from the Indian state of Kerala to get a glimpse of the world’s highest peak.
Another member of the tour group discovered the eight in their hotel room after going to wake them around 7:30 a.m., Kamal Thapa, a doctor at the Hospital for Advanced Medicine and Surgery in Kathmandu, told The Post.
On Monday, officials called off the search for seven remaining people -- four South Korean trekkers and three Nepali guides – who’ve been missing since Friday after being swept away in a heavy avalanche that struck Mount Annapurna in the Himalayas, The Post also reported.
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About 200 people were rescued after that avalanche. The search for the seven was called off amid heavy snowfall, Nepali’s tourism department said in a press release. Mount Annapurna is the tenth highest peak in the world.