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NEW DELHI, Feb 23 (KUNA) -- At least 17 people were killed, and several others were injured when a bus, carrying 44 passengers, plunged into the Trishuli River in Dhading in Nepal on Monday morning.
The Nepalese newspaper Himalayan Times, quoted police saying that the Kathmandu-bound bus was en route from Pokhara when it veered off the road and fell some 300 meters below into the Trishuli River at Charaundi in Benighat Rorang Rural Municipality-7 of Dhading along the Prithvi Highway killing 17 people and injuring 26 others.
Security personnel from the Nepal Army, Nepal Police and Armed Police Force, along with local residents, carried out the rescue operation and 26 injured passengers were rescued and rushed to various hospitals for treatment. (end)
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