DOTI, AUGUST 16

As many as 17 people were injured after a passenger-carrying bus met an accident at Samuhagadh of Silgadhi Municipality-4 in Dipayal district this morning.

The bus (Na 5 Kha 4451) fell some 35 metres off the road. The Information Officer of the District Police Office in Doti, Bhimlal Bhattarai, said that the bus of Shaileshwori Yatayat Company was heading to Dipayal from Dhangadhi.

The injured ones are rushed to Sujang Hospital at Rajpur in Doti.