Nepal : 23 people, most of them students, killed as bus falls into gorge
Kathmandu, Dec 22 (IBNS) :Altogether 23 people, most of them teenagers, were killed when a bus carrying school students and teachers plunged into a gorge in western Nepal, media reports said quoting the local police.
The students were aged mostly between 16 and 20. Two teachers and the driver also died in the accident early evening on Friday in a remote area.
The group was on its way back from a botanical field trip in Kapurkot in Salyan district. The students and instructors from Krishna Sen Ichhuk Polytechnic Institute had been visiting a farm for their botany project, The Kathmandu Post reported.
The bus veered off the road and fell some 700 metres down near Ramri village, about 400 kilometres west of the capital Kathmandu.
The vehicle was carrying 37 people, with 22 killed at the scene and another in a nearby hospital. Fourteen persons, including five women, were injured in the incident.
"Our preliminary investigation shows the cause of the incident was speed," police officer Bel Bahadur Pandey told AFP.
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