Chitwan Bus Mishap: 15 dead

The murdering bus-drivers strike again! Been telling all these years that the bus-drivers were killing more Nepalis than the MaoBadBoyz...

Chitwan Bus Mishap: 15 dead; bodies of 6 Indians, 4 Nepalis identified

Binod Tripathi

KURINTAR, Chitwan, Feb 27 - At least 15 people were killed and 31 injured when a Birgunj bound bus from Kathmandu swerved off the road and plunged into the Trishuli river at the Prithvi Highway's Darechowk stretch in Chitwan Monday night.

The injured have been rushed to Kathmandu and Bharatpur and are undergoing treatment at the Bir Hospital in the capital and Bharatpur's Bharatpur Hospital and Medical College.

According to the injured, most of the travelers on the bus were Indian nationals.

The bus fell some 130 metres below the highway.

13 people died on the spot and two died while undergoing treatment.

Out of the injured brought to the Bir Hospital, nine have returned home after treatment. 12 are in critical condition.

The bus fell off the highway at around Monday midnight while the driver made an attempt to avoid a mentally retarded woman who was walking in the middle of the road, police said.