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Bus accident kills 13, injures 35 in eastern Nepal

Xinhua, July 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

Thirteen people were killed and 35 others sustained injuries on Thursday when a passenger bus veered off the mountain highway and plunged some 200 meters down in Dhankuta District of Nepal, some 600 kilometers east of capital Kathmandu.

The ill-fated passenger bus met the accident at Sidhuwa village in Dhankuta District when it was en route to Sunsari District from Tehrathum District, local media said.

"The injured are receiving treatment in local hospitals in Dhankuta and Dharan. Doctors have told us eight of them are in critical condition," Police Officer Bibhuti Raj Pandey told local media.

Pandey attributed the accident to thick fog and torrential rainfall. Endit