Bus Accident Victims in Tanahun Sent to India for Final Rites

The bodies of those who tragically lost their lives in a bus accident in Ainapahra, Aanbu Khaireni Rural Municipality-4, Tanahun district, were sent to India for Final Rites. The accident occurred on Friday when a passenger bus, UP 53 FT 7623, traveling from Pokhara to Kathmandu, plunged 200 meters off the road into the Masryangdi River, killing 27 people.

After postmortem examinations at Bharatpur Hospital in Chitwan, 25 of the deceased were flown to India via an Indian Air Force plane. The bodies of the bus driver and helper were transported to Gorakhpur, India, by land. Indra Dev Yadav, Chief District Officer of Chitwan, confirmed that the bodies had been transported to Bharatpur on Friday night from the accident site in Aanbu Khaireni.

India’s Minister of State for Youth and Sports, Raksha Nikhil Khadse, arrived in Bharatpur to receive the bodies.

The victims include 15 women, 11 men, and a four-year-old girl. Sixteen others, including 10 women, were injured and are receiving treatment at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) in Kathmandu. The wounded passengers were airlifted to Kathmandu by a Nepal Army helicopter on Friday. According to police, there were 43 people on board the bus at the time of the accident.