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Japanese climber dies of altitude sickness

Biratnagar, May 7 : A Japanese national died of altitude sickness in Solukhumbu on Sunday. He is Kuga Takahiro, 42.

Takahiro, who suffered from altitude sickness at Labuche Base camp at Khumbu Pasanglhamu-4, died on the way to Lukla-based Nicole Niquille Hospital.

He arrived here on April 27 to scale Mt Everest