At the very least 27 individuals – 20 of them pilgrims from north Maharashtra‘s Jalgaon district, together with a six-year-old woman – have been killed when an Indian vacationer bus that started its journey from UP veered off the freeway and fell 150 metres into the fast-flowing Marsyangdi river close to Tanahu district in Nepal, round 130km from UP’s Maharajganj district, on Friday morning.It was carrying 43 passengers, all of them pilgrims.
Sixteen individuals have been injured, in keeping with the Indian embassy in Nepal. The toll is anticipated to rise as a number of the 16 injured passengers airlifted to Kathmandu‘s Tribhuvan College Instructing Hospital have been in important situation.
Maharashtra reduction, rehabilitation and catastrophe administration minister Anil Patil informed TOI their precedence now was to “carry again the our bodies to Bhusawal. My division officers are coordinating with the Nepal and UP govts.” UP reduction commissioner G S Naveen mentioned, “UP govt officers will obtain the our bodies on the Nepal border and transfer them to Maharashtra. The last-mile logistics are being labored out.”
The bus was ferrying 43 pilgrims, most of them from Maharashtra’s Bhusawal city (Jalgaon district), who have been going to Kathmandu after seeing varied locations in UP. Driver Murtaza Khan and conductor Ramjeet, alias Munna, each from UP, additionally died within the accident. UP’s reduction division mentioned all 43 passengers, 17 males and 26 girls, had been accounted for. “Nepal govt has forwarded listing of the deceased and injured individuals from Bhusawal city to Maharashtra govt,” Bhusawal’s BJP MLA Sanjay Savkare informed TOI. He added that the situation of 12 injured was acknowledged to be “very important”.
Vishnu Kesarwani, proprietor of Gorakhpur-based Kesarwani Travels which offered three buses for Maharashtra vacationers’ tour package deal, acknowledged that the passengers from Bhusawal have been on their method to Kathmandu from Pokhara. The group was initially picked up from Prayagraj and brought to Chitrakoot, Ayodhya, Gorakhpur, Sonauli and Lumbini, and Pokhara in Nepal.
Collector Ayush Prasad informed TOI over the cellphone from Jalgaon that victims have been from rural elements of Bhusawal and have been on a pilgrimage. “Whole 110 individuals from Bhusawal had travelled to Ayodhya. They started their journey on Aug 16,” he mentioned.
Two buses with 110 pilgrims had left Pokhara in Nepal and have been heading in the direction of Kathmandu, when the automobile carrying 43 individuals, together with the driving force and helper, fell into the river in Ambukhereni area of Nepal’s Tanahu district. “Passengers of the opposite buses are secure,” MLA Savkare mentioned.
Maharashtra deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, in a put up on X, condoled the passengers’ deaths and mentioned govt has communicated with the Indian embassy in Nepal.
UP govt has despatched a SDM to the accident website, whereas international ministry is coordinating search and rescue operation with native authorities.
Sixteen individuals have been injured, in keeping with the Indian embassy in Nepal. The toll is anticipated to rise as a number of the 16 injured passengers airlifted to Kathmandu‘s Tribhuvan College Instructing Hospital have been in important situation.
Maharashtra reduction, rehabilitation and catastrophe administration minister Anil Patil informed TOI their precedence now was to “carry again the our bodies to Bhusawal. My division officers are coordinating with the Nepal and UP govts.” UP reduction commissioner G S Naveen mentioned, “UP govt officers will obtain the our bodies on the Nepal border and transfer them to Maharashtra. The last-mile logistics are being labored out.”
The bus was ferrying 43 pilgrims, most of them from Maharashtra’s Bhusawal city (Jalgaon district), who have been going to Kathmandu after seeing varied locations in UP. Driver Murtaza Khan and conductor Ramjeet, alias Munna, each from UP, additionally died within the accident. UP’s reduction division mentioned all 43 passengers, 17 males and 26 girls, had been accounted for. “Nepal govt has forwarded listing of the deceased and injured individuals from Bhusawal city to Maharashtra govt,” Bhusawal’s BJP MLA Sanjay Savkare informed TOI. He added that the situation of 12 injured was acknowledged to be “very important”.
Vishnu Kesarwani, proprietor of Gorakhpur-based Kesarwani Travels which offered three buses for Maharashtra vacationers’ tour package deal, acknowledged that the passengers from Bhusawal have been on their method to Kathmandu from Pokhara. The group was initially picked up from Prayagraj and brought to Chitrakoot, Ayodhya, Gorakhpur, Sonauli and Lumbini, and Pokhara in Nepal.
Collector Ayush Prasad informed TOI over the cellphone from Jalgaon that victims have been from rural elements of Bhusawal and have been on a pilgrimage. “Whole 110 individuals from Bhusawal had travelled to Ayodhya. They started their journey on Aug 16,” he mentioned.
Two buses with 110 pilgrims had left Pokhara in Nepal and have been heading in the direction of Kathmandu, when the automobile carrying 43 individuals, together with the driving force and helper, fell into the river in Ambukhereni area of Nepal’s Tanahu district. “Passengers of the opposite buses are secure,” MLA Savkare mentioned.
Maharashtra deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, in a put up on X, condoled the passengers’ deaths and mentioned govt has communicated with the Indian embassy in Nepal.
UP govt has despatched a SDM to the accident website, whereas international ministry is coordinating search and rescue operation with native authorities.
