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Nepal: Indian pilgrims killed in road mishap

| | Jun 03, 2014, at 06:10 am
Kathamandu, June 2 (IBNS): At least 16 Indian pilgrims were killed and 59 others were injured as the bus in which they were traveling fell into a river in Nepal's Pyuthan district on Monday, media reports said.

" As many as 16 Indian pilgrims were killed and 59 injured when a bus en route to Kapilvastu’s Krishnanagar from Swargadwari, a holy shrine in Pyuthan, met with an accident at Gothibang VDC, Fursedanda, in Pyuthan, this evening," The Himalayan Times reported.

"Ten persons were killed on the spot when the ill-fated bus fell 75 metres below the road at Fursedanda," the newspaper reported quoting Pyuthan District Police Office DSP Deepak Regmi.

All the deceased were from north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

The injured people are undergoing treatment.

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