Seven more bodies of those killed in Saturday’s bus crash in Damauli have been identified. At least one was confirmed missing while the police say more might be disappearing in the flooded river.
Eleven people, including a child and four women, died and 10 others were injured when a Muglin-bound bus plunged into the Madi river near Damauli Bazaar on the Prithvi Highway. The vehicle had swerved off a bridge and fallen into the river as the driver braked to save children walking on the bridge.
Out of eleven people who died in the bus accident, ten have been identified till this morning.
Laxmi Narayan Shrestha of Khotang and his son Hemraj Shrestha, Keshav Dhakal and Hom Bahadur Somai Magar of Chitwan, Mahesh Bastakoti of Nawalparasi, Kiran Shrestha of Kathmandu and Bishwonath Yadav of Saptari have been identified as dead. Aayush Thapa, Muna Thapa and Tikamaya Ale were already identified. Identity of a woman is yet to be ascertained. Police handed over the bodies to their kin after postmortem.
Police said that 10-year-old Aayushma Thapa of Damauli was missing. According to Som Bahadur Thapa, a neighbour, her brother Aayush died while their mother Bishnu Kumari Thapa sustained injuries.
Nine of the injured are receiving care at Manipal Teaching Hospital in Pokhara while one Pabitra Sapkota is being treated at the Damauli-based Ratnahari Hospital.
The local administration has deployed security personnel to various places downstream to search for the missing.
Though it has been speculated that around 35-40 people were on board when the accident took place, the exact number of passengers is not been known yet.
Monday 8 July 2013
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