SINDHULI, Asoj -26 At least 41 passengers were killed and 16 others injured when an overcrowded passenger bus swerved from the road and tumbled on the Sunkoshi River bank at Purano Jhagajholi-4,
Sindhuli district, along the BP Highway on Thursday morning.
The ill-fated bus (Na 3 Kha 9412), bound for the Capital from Sindhuli, skidded off the road and fell some 110 meters down, leaving 27 male and 13 female passengers dead. One injured, Birbahadur Tamang, 50, of Bandipur, died while undergoing treatment at Dhulikhel hospital this afternoon.