NAWALPUR, OCTOBER 4
Six people were killed and 12 others injured when a passenger bus en route to Kathmandu from Nepalgunj overturned at Daunne along the East-West Highway on Saturday morning.
The accident occurred at S-mode in Binayi Triveni Rural Municipality-2, Nawalparasi (Bardaghat-Susta East), according to District Police Office information officer DSP Anil Pandit.
The deceased have been identified as Suresh BC, 36, of Khajura Rural Municipality-2, Banke; Dipendra KC, 32, of Kohalpur Municipality-3; Ekendraraj Regmi, 55, of Kohalpur-10; Krish Kanaujia, 22, of Nepalgunj Sub-Metropolitan City-7; Nirjung Gurung, 50, of Bheriganga Municipality-3, Jajarkot; and Narendraraj, 65, of Swamikartik Rural Municipality, Bajura.
The bus, numbered Pradesh 3-01-006 B 1553, was carrying 18 passengers. Eight of the injured were referred to Chitwan Medical College Teaching Hospital in Bharatpur after receiving initial treatment at Madhyabindu Provincial Hospital in Danda. Four others are receiving treatment and being kept under observation at Madhyabindu Hospital.
