The death toll in Friday's bus accident near Anbu Khaireni of Tanahun district has reached 27.
An Indian passenger bus with the number plate UP 53 FT 7623 plunged into the Marsyangdi River at Aina Pahara in Anbu Khaireni Rural Municipality-2, Tanahun, when it was heading to Kathmandu from Pokhara on Friday morning.
Sixteen others injured in the accident have been rescued and brought to Kathmandu for treatment. According to Deputy Superintendent of Police Shailendra Thapa, joint spokesperson for Armed Police Force, the injured have been brought to Kathmandu in a Nepal Army helicopter.
The bus was carrying 41 passengers, the driver and his assistant.
Superintendent of Police Mohan Kumar Thapa at District Police Office, Kaski, said that all 43 were Indian nationals.
According to SP Thapa, they have received information that the passengers had come from Gorakhpur in India.
They had stayed in a hotel in Pokhara and the bus had left there for Kathmandu at 7:30 Friday morning, he added.
According to police, the hotel’s records show that the 41 Indian nationals had arrived in Pokhara on Wednesday. They stayed in Pokhara for two days and left for Kathmandu on Friday morning.
DSP Thapa said that the bus will be pulled out only on Saturday as it was already dark.
(This story has been updated.)
