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Kathmandu Monday October 08, 2001 Ashwin 22, 2058.
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10 killed, 39 injured in Dang bus mishap
By K. P. Ghimire & Yagya Bikram Shahi
GHORAHI (Dang), Oct 7 - At least 10 people died while 39 others, 27 of them
seriously, injured when a passenger bus en route to Nepalgunj from Tulsipur fell about 200
metres off the Lamahi-Tulsipur highway near Musot river today, police said. There were 48
people travelling in the ill-fated bus.
The site of the accident is about 15 km away from here, the district
headquarters. Police have identified only four bodies so far.
Police Inspector Padam Adhikari in Lamahi said that four people died on the
spot and six others succumbed to their injuries while undergoing treatment at Mahendra
Hospital in Ghorahi and at a health centre in Lamahi.
Deputy Superintendent of Police in Tulsipur, Ram Bahadur Basnet, said two
policemen who were travelling in the bus also sustained serious injuries in the accident.
Those killed in the accident have so far been identified as Raju Basnet and
Satya Narayan Chaudhary, both from Chaulahi VDC and Alok Ghimire of Ghorahi. Another
passenger named Kothari Chaudhary died on the way to Tansen Mission Hospital in Palpa.
R. D. Shah, a health assistant at Lamahi health centre, said two others who
died at the centre were yet to be identified. Shah said all the five died while undergoing
treatment.
Two passengers died at Mahendra Hospital while undergoing treatment and six
seriously injured people were rushed to Tansen. Similarly, 25 others were admitted in
Nepalgunj and three in Butwal hospitals. Police said that the bus (Ra 1 Kha 246) was
completely damaged.
DSP Basnet said the whereabouts of the bus driver, Deepak Rijal, was still
unknown. Police could not immediately establish the cause of the accident and an
investigation has been ordered.
Around 400 Armed Police personnel involved in combat training course near the
accident site carried rescue operation within 20 minutes. Survivors said the bus was high
speed and the driver could not control the bus.
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