10 dead, five seriously injured in Bhimphedi bus accident
Superintendent of Police (SP) Shyam Bahadur Khatri led by SP Shyam Bahadur Khatri and security personnel were involved in the rescue operation. At least 10 people died and five others were seriously injured when an electric vehicle met with an accident at Chisapanigadhi in Bhimphedi Rural Municipality-6 of Makwanpur district on Sunday morning. At least 10 people died and five others were seriously injured when an electric vehicle met with an accident at Chisapanigadhi in Bhimphedi Rural Municipality-6 of Makwanpur district on Sunday morning.
The accident took place when the passenger EV (Madhesh State 03-001 Ja 0880) en route to Sarlahi from Kathmandu skidded off the road and fell some 500 meters down from the road at Chisapanigadhi along the Bhimphedi-Kulekhani-Kathmandu road section at around
5.45 am on Thursday.
According to the preliminary information received from the District Police Office, Makwanpur, 10 people died in the accident. The deceased include five men, three women and two girls. Five others were injured. The injured include two boys and three men. The injured have been sent to Hetauda Hospital for treatment. According to the police, 14 to
15 people including the driver were travelling in the vehicle at the time of the accident. A seven-member police team led by Sub Inspector Dipendra Dhakal from Area Police Office, Bhimphedi, had reached the incident site at 5.55 am this morning.
A team of 10 APF personnel under the command of Deputy Superintendent of APF Devendra Bahadur Singh was mobilized from the Prison Security Base Bhimphedi for rescue operation. Similarly, an 11-member team led by Lieutenant Colonel Arogya Gautam of the Nepal Army, a 10-member team under the command of Superintendent of Police Shyam Bahadur Khatri from the District Police Office, Makwanpur and a 10-member team under the command of Assistant Sub Inspector Jaya Prakash Yadav from Bagmati Province Disaster Management Battalion of Hetauda were mobilized for the rescue operation. SP Khatri himself reached the spot and led the rescue
As soon as the news of the accident was received, Chief Superintendent of Police (SP) of District Police Office, Makwanpur, Shyam Bahadur Khatri, himself reached the spot with a police team. He led the rescue operation at the incident site and coordinated the police mobilization and rescue work.
The accident site is about eight kilometers north of the Area Police Office, Bhimphedi. The rescue operation became challenging as the vehicle fell into a deep cliff about 500 meters below the road.
The cause of the accident is yet to be ascertained. Details of the deceased and injured and further details of the incident are awaited, police said.
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