Kathmandu: Shocked by the death of three friends in a helicopter crash, a UN official committed suicide here.

A Russian helicopter engineer, Evegeny Alexandrov, 50, who was working for the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) hanged himself inside his rented room at Kapan on Saturday and left a suicide note in Russian, the police said.

Alexandrov was living in an apartment with five of his colleagues and was depressed after three of them died in a helicopter accident in Bethan village of Ramechhap district on March 3.

Seven UNMIN officials and three crew members had died in the chopper crash.

The UN established its mission in Nepal last year to monitor the peace process.
Source : PTI