26 injured as bus carrying picnickers veers off the road in Surkhet

SURKHET: Twenty-six people were injured when a bus carrying picnickers met with an accident at Kapase in Birendranagar of Surkhet on Wednesday evening.

The bus, with registration number Karnali Province 02-01-Kha-0188, was carrying people returning from a picnic in Katakuwa. It fell some 100 meters off the road near a bend close to the main gate of the Kali Bahadur Battalion of the Nepal Army.

Army personnel rescued the passengers and transported the injured to the Karnali Provincial Hospital in Birendranagar for treatment, according to Nepal Army’s North-Western Division Headquarters in Surkhet.

According to the District Police Office, Surkhet, two injured are in critical condition.