Four Indian nationals of a single family died when a pile of scrap buried them.

The deceased have been identified as Sahajad Hussein, 30, of Bihar state, India, his wife Saddhav Khatun, two-year-old daughter Sahina Khatun and six-year-old Sultan Raja, said Police Inspector at the District Police Office, Keshav Gyawali.

They had been living in a rented room at Gallamandi Piparahiya of Siddharthanagar municipality-6.

Gyawali said that all of them died due to suffocation as the pile of scrap they had collected fell upon them. All four of them were found dead this morning. The bodies have been kept at Bhairahawa-based Bhim Hospital for post-mortem, said police.