KATHMANDU: Eight persons, including two children, were killed and 23 others injured in two separate road accidents in Nepal today when a bus and a car fell into the Trishuli river, police said.
Seven persons were killed when a bus, carrying 28 passengers, fell into the river at Chumlingtar in Ichhakamana of Chitwan Rural Municipality in Chitwan, about 60 km west of Kathmandu, this morning.
According to police, the accident happened when the bus, en route Syangja from Kathmandu, veered off the road after hitting a truck that had suddenly entered the highway from an open space used for parking vehicles.
Seven passengers, including two children, died in the accident while 21 others were injured, police said, adding that injured were rushed to hospitals in Kathmandu, Pokhara and Chitawan.
In another incident, driver of a private car was killed while two others injured after the vehicle plunged into the Trishuli river at Gajuri rural municipality of Dhading district.
The car was going to Pokhara from Kathmandu when it veered off the road and fell into the river, police said.