A vehicle with Indian license plates was discovered in the Trishuli River in Nepal’s Chitwan district in the early hours of Tuesday, police said. “Divers located and showed the jeep inside the river. This morning, citizens of the Ikshyakamana-5 village council called us, suspecting that a vehicle might have sunk into the river,” Shreeram Bhandari, deputy superintendent of police at the Chitwan District Police Bureau, said by telephone.
“The jeep went off the road and plunged 85 meters into the river,” the police officer said. According to police, the condition of the passengers of the submerged vehicle is still known.
Separately, on Friday night, at least 12 other people, in addition to two Indian nationals, were killed in a road accident in Dang district in west-central Nepal, police confirmed. Only 8 other people who died in the Bhalubang crash have died. “The passenger bus was heading to Kathmandu from Nepalgunj from Banke, but it veered off the bridge and fell into the Rapti River. We have only verified the identities of 8 deceased passengers, plus two Indians,” Ujjwal Bahadur Singh said. , chief police inspector at the regional police bureau, Bhalubang said. (ANI)
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