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Kathmandu Thursday May 24, 2001 Jestha 11, 2058.
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One more drowned victim
recovered from Trishuli
Post Report
CHITWAN, May 23 - Six days after the fatal
accident of a laden truck, police on Wednesday recovered another body of a girl, one of
the 12 passengers drowned into the swollen Trishuli river on Friday.
The body has been identified to be the
grand-daughter of Prem Prasad Poudel, from Hetauda Municipality-9.
Eight of the 12 passengers drowned into the
river were from the same family, who were travelling in the truck from Hetauda that
plunged about 40 metres below the flooded river from the Narayangadh-Mugling highway at
Tuhin Khola, about two km south of Mugling.
All eight people, most of them women and
children, were going to Naubise, Dhading, to take part in a marriage ceremony of their
relatives.
On Monday, body of Kavita, the daughter of Prem
Prasad Poudel, was recovered from the swirling brown water at Simaltal. Police have been
searching the
rest of the bodies still missing into the rapid current of the snow-fed river.
Despite repeated attempts, the drowned truck
could not be pulled out of the water and police suspect that rest of the other bodies are
laying trapped under the loaded truck.
Deputy Superintendent of Police, Sudeep Acharya,
said manual pulleys are being brought from India to bring the truck out of the water.
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