Himal Press 
KATHMANDU: The wreckage of the bus that plunged into the Marshyangdi River in Tanahun district with 41 passengers and two staff was retrieved on Monday afternoon.
The bus was pulled out with the help of a crane by stopping vehicular movement on the Anbukhaireni-Muglin section of the Prithvi Highway since 6 am. It took more than eight hours to retrieve the wreckage.
“It took us eight hours to retrieve the wreckage from the river. We have now resumed vehicular movement,” SP Birendra Bahadur Shahi of the District Police Office, Tanahun, said. “We will move it to an appropriate location once the traffic congestion eases.”
Twenty-seven people died when the bus, with Indian registration (UP 53 FT 7623), fell 150 meters off the road and plunged into the Marshyangdi River on Friday morning. The bus was carrying pilgrims from Jalgaon district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
