A bus in Nepal has slipped off a narrow mountain road killing at least 33 people and injuring 28 others.
A bus in Nepal has slipped off a narrow mountain road killing at least 33 people and injuring 28 others. It fell some 200 metres down steep slopes.
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The vehicle had been on route from Kathmandu to outlying villages when the accident happened.
A military helicopter plucked the injured to hospitals in the capital where relatives gathered out side the National Trauma Centre in the heart of Kathmandu.
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Many of the passengers had been travelling home after receiving their first government payments for victims of last year’s devastating earthquake.
The poor condition of roads and ill-maintained vehicles contribute to frequent accidents in mostly mountainous Nepal.