Nepal: 14 killed, 19 injured after bus accident in Sindhupalchok
World | December 15, 2019 12:46 ISTA bus carrying 40 passengers met with an accident in Nepal's Sindhupalchok district on Sunday killing at least 14 people while 19 suffered injuries.
A bus carrying 40 passengers met with an accident in Nepal's Sindhupalchok district on Sunday killing at least 14 people while 19 suffered injuries.
According to a police official, the mishap took place near Gudh road, at around 6.30 am when the bus was on its way to Sidhi district from Rewa in Madhya Pradesh. Several people have been reported critically injured in the accident.
Deadly road accidents are common in Morocco, often caused by high speed, bad condition of roads and reckless driving.
At least ten persons were injured as a private bus carrying a marriage party fell into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district on Thursday morning, the police said.
Nepal has seen a heavy rise in vehicle accidents in recent years. According to Traffic Police Office of Nepal, the Himalayan country witnessed a total of 8,918 vehicle accidents killing 254 people in the last fiscal year 2018-2019 that ended in mid-July, a sharp rise from 6,381 accidents in the previous fiscal year.
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The bus appeared to have skidded off the road some 500 meters from the Carpish Tunnel on its way from Huancayo in Junin to Pucallpa in northeast Ucayali, the Xinhua news agency reported.
The accident occurred early in the morning, police said, adding that the victims were on their way to Hisar in Haryana from Maharashtra's Latur.
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According to the police, the state transport bus, going from Akkalkot in Solapur district to Mahad in adjoining Raigad district, suddenly veered off the road.
According to the local media, the passengers onboard the bus included Asian and Arabic nationals.
Zamil Alam (40), a resident of Madangiri, his wife Nelofer and seven-year-old daughter Khushi were taken to a hospital, where Nelofer was declared brought dead, a senior police officer said.
The incident was reported at nearly 1:30 am, early Thursday, while the bus was travelling from Raisen to Chhatarpur.
A few minutes earlier, a Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) bus of Baijnath depot had skidded off road at the same spot.
The accident took place around 5 am near Mhasave village, located nearly 110 km from here, on Mumbai-Bengaluru National Highway no. 4.
The bus carrying 28 children, rammed into a divider and overturned, killing two on the spot. Another died on the way to the hospital, they said.
According to eyewitnesses, the bus was taking a U-turn near Tata Primanti Housing Society around 2.30 p.m. and the dumper hit it while trying to overtake, shattering windshields of the bus.
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A bus carrying 11 passengers was hit by a boulder in Uttarakhand, in which 5 pilgrims died. The accident was reported from Lambagad slide zone on Badrinath Highway. Chamoli district was hit by a landslide early today, soon after which the accident occurred. Police teams are at the spot and rescue operations are currently underway.
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