Salyan accident: Driver Vishwakarma dies during treatment [Update]

22 people were injured in the accident which happened around 11 am. Chief DSP of District Police Office Salyan, Naveen Karki informed that the seriously injured Vishwakarma of Tulsipur sub-metropolitan city-4 died during treatment at regional hospital Tulsipur.

Passenger bus No. Ra 1 B 2085 going from Ghorahi to Rukum had an accident on the bridge of Bagchaur Municipality-2 Thinbang Khola.

According to DSP Karki, Krishna Chaudhary, age 29 of Tulsipur sub-metropolitan city-10 Bijauri, and Chitra Pun, age 22 of Tribeni rural municipality Rukum Paschim, along with driver Vishwakarma, Dilkumari Gautam aged 36 of Narayanpur Municipality-10 Dang, Khima Bik aged 26 of Rakshachaur, Poorna Shamsher Jabra aged 34 of Tulsipur Sub-Metropolitan Municipality-6, Thugi Budha aged 49 of Parseni, Kumbh Kumari Budha aged 47, Chaurjahari Municipality-2 Rukum Pushpa Chand, 16, of West, Sapna Bhandari, 19, of Sharda Municipality-5, Bhuma Basnet, 50, of Bagchaur Municipality-1, Yogmaya Basnet, 23, of Sharda Municipality-15, Resam Magar, 6, of Tribeni Rural Municipality-2, Rukum West. , Umesh Malla aged 17 from Chaurjahari Municipality-9 Rukum West, Aruna Gautam aged 11 from Sisne Rural Municipality-6 Rukum, Nischal Hamal aged 14 from Bafikot Rural Municipality-1 Rukum, Lalita Basnet aged 2 from Bagchaur Municipality-2, Surendra aged 25 Basnet, Chhatreswari Rural Municipality-1 Birendra Chand, age 31 of Damachour, Bir Bahadur Basnet, age 17 of Siddhakumakh Rural Municipality-1, Basantjang Chhetri, aged 33, of Tribeni Rural Municipality-6, Ranjit Bik, aged 25, of Runtigadhi Rural Municipality-5, Rolpa, were injured.

All of them 9 people who were seriously injured after general treatment at Bagchaur Municipality-2 Tharmare Janpriya Polyclinic Nepalgunj and Dang have been sent for further treatment. The police said that the bus went out of control and fell from the bridge into the river. There were 25 passengers in the bus.