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17 Indian pilgrims die in bus mishap in Nepal
At least 17 Indian pilgrims including nine women were killed and 28 others injured on Wednesday when a bus carrying them from Gujarat plunged some 100 metres from a mountain highway in Nepal, officials said. The ill-fated bus with Indian number plate, carrying around 45 pilgrims, veered off the Prithvi highway at Naubise village in Dhading district, some 75-km east of Kathmandu.
Kathmandu: At least 17 Indian pilgrims including nine women were killed and 28 others injured on Wednesday when a bus carrying them from Gujarat plunged some 100 metres from a mountain highway in Nepal, officials said. The ill-fated bus with Indian number plate, carrying around 45 pilgrims, veered off the Prithvi highway at Naubise village in Dhading district, some 75-km east of Kathmandu.
The pilgrims from Gujarat were returning to Gorakhpur in India after a pilgrimage to Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Superintendent of Police Bishworaj Pokharel said. 14 passengers died on the spot while three others succumbed to their injuries shortly after being taken to a nearby hospital. Nine women and eight men are among those killed. The injured passengers were rushed to Kathmandu for medical treatment.
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The condition of four of them was said to be critical. Twenty one people are still in the hospital undergoing treatment, according to Indian Embassy sources. The embassy has deputed a team comprising Consular Wing officials to the accident site to better coordinate the rescue efforts, the embassy said in a statement. Rescue efforts are going on at the accident site, which lies along the Tribhuvan Highway, with the help of security personnel and the local people, he said.
