Dozens of search and rescue personnel were combing the site for survivors of the accident along a remote stretch of road in the central district of Chitwan.
Rescuers search for survivors in river Trishuli in Simaltar on July 12, 2024, at the site of a landslide. – At least 63 people were missing in Nepal on July 12 after a landslide triggered by heavy monsoon rains swept two buses off a highway and into a river, authorities said.
One of the survivors told AFP from his hospital bed that his two children and two grandchildren had been aboard one of the buses when it hit the waterway. The force of the landslide pushed the buses over concrete crash barriers and down a steep embankment into the river, at least 30 metres from the road.
“The teams are trying but river’s flow is very strong. They have not found anything yet,” police spokesman Kumar Neupane told AFP.The accident took place before dawn along the Narayanghat-Mugling highway, around 100 kilometres west of the capital Kathmandu.A driver was killed in a separate accident on the same road after a boulder hit his bus. He died as he was being treated at a hospital.
Nearly 2,400 people lost their lives on Nepal’s roads in the 12 months to April, according to government figures.Twelve people were killed and 24 were injured in an accident in January when a bus heading to Kathmandu from Nepalgunj fell into a river.
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