Kathmandu, January 17
At least seven persons died after a passenger bus fell off the road in Kusma, the headquarters of Parbat district, in western Nepal on Thursday morning.
The bus (Ga 1 Kha 6108) heading towards Narayangadh of Chitwan from Beni of Myagdi district skidded off the road in Malghunga, Kusma-1, according to police.
The victims are yet to be identified.
Officials supervising rescue works say 31 passengers have sustained injuries. Five of them are serious.
Whereas two of the serious passengers have been airlifted to Kathmandu’s Grande International Hospital, a request has been made to the Nepal Army to airlift remaining three, according to Janak Raj Paudel, mayor of Baglung Municipality in neighbouring Baglung district.
Other injured have been treated at Dhaulagiri Zonal Hospital in Baglung. Some of them have been referred to Pokhara-based Manipal Teaching Hospital.
Causes of the accident are not immediately ascertained.
