24 feared killed in Nepal bus accident
AFP, Kathmandu
At least 24 people were feared dead and 21 were injured when a bus plunged over a ravine into a raging river in Makwanpur district of central Nepal early yesterday, police said. Police and soldiers who rushed to the scene recovered the bodies of eight people while sixteen other passengers were missing, feared washed away in the river, a police spokesman said. The bus, which left Kathmandu early Wednesday with 45 passengers aboard, fell at least 150 metres (yards) down the ravine into the river. The cause of the accident, which occurred between Singbhanjyang and Alarekhola localities west of Kathmandu, was not immediately known, a Home Ministry official said.
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