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Nepalgunj, June 2
All the victims of Sunday night time’s bus accident in Banke examined detrimental for the coronavirus, the district well being authority mentioned.
Twelve individuals died and 21 had been injured when a bus heading to Salyan, carrying migrant staff coming back from India, ploughed right into a truck parked on the roadside close to Agaiya in Rapti Sonari Rural Municipality at midnight.
While 11 individuals died on the spot, one sufferer had died in the middle of therapy.
Given the chance of COVID-19 an infection, the well being authority within the district had collected swab samples of the deceased and the injured for PCR check. “Yesterday we had collected the swab samples and despatched them for check. We’ve obtained their outcomes. They’re all detrimental,” mentioned District Health Office Banke Corona Focal Person Naresh Shrestha.
According to Bheri Hospital performing medical superintendent Dr Prakash Bahadur Thapa, preparations at the moment are below solution to hand over the our bodies to their kin.
Meanwhile, police reckoned that overspeeding and overloading had brought on the accident.
“The bus meant for simply 20 individuals apparently had 33 individuals on board, and on prime of that, it was over rushing. That’s how the motive force misplaced management and the accident occurred,” mentioned Banke District Police Office SP Bir Bahadur Oli.
The injured, nevertheless, mentioned the motive force was drunk and subsequently the accident occurred.
A model of this text seems in e-paper on June 03, 2020 of The Himalayan Times.
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