Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Friday, 21 Aug 1992 16:52:33 MST
From: <ASRPA@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nepal
Subject:    News from Nepal


               Bus Mishap Kills 8 Persons in Nepal
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Kathmandu, August 19, (Xinhua):

     Eight people were killed on the spot and 31 others wounded in
an overturn of a luxury bus more than 100 kilometers west of this
capital of nepal last night, police said today. The ill-fated bus,
which was heading from Kathmandu to Janakpur, fell about 250 feet
off the road. Of the injured, 29 are undergoing treatment at
Bharatpur hospital, including the bus driver.

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                Traffic Accidents Kill 4, Injure
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Kathmandu, August 19 (Xinhua):

     Three persons were killed on the spot and 3 others injured
when an indian-registered maruti van hit a bridge near Madhawari of
Siddhartha highway in central Nepal's Nawalparasi district Tuesday,
Radio Nepal  reported today. The van broke into two and burst into
flame, local police said. Local radio said that a truck fell into
the Trisuli river at Ghoptebhir about three kilometers east of
Mugling, central Nepal last friday. The truck driver was drowned in
the river and the truck's cleaner saved his own life by jumping
off, the report said.

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       Gastroenteritis Death Toll Crosses 600 in Nepal
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Kathmandu, August 18 (Xinhua):

     Gastroenteritis has claimed more than 600 lives and the death
toll may reach  1,000 in Nepal,  the local leading english daily
"The Rising Nepal" reported  today. Officials said that the rate of
gastroenteritis deaths in the kingdom this year is likely to be 1
percent, compared to 1.9 percent last year when over  2,000 people
died of the disease. The districts of Baglung, Mugu, Bajhang, Doti,
Bajhura, Humla, Kalikot, Dhanusa, Rameshhap and Achham have been
classified as the most affected areas. In the Kathmandu valley,
5,500 cases of  gastroenteritis were recorded in a peak month. Last
year, the valley had 18,000  cases. Ignorance has been the prime
cause of deaths which can be averted in most cases by the simple
process of oral re-hydration therapy. Often villagers leave
diseased relatives to die alone and flee to neighboring villages or
nearby  forests. The disease comes fast under control in more
accessible and conscious  districts but is difficult in far-off
places where most of the relief supplies have been said to be made
available through helicopters. Complaints of the epidemic disease
surface from April and continues right up until the Dashain
festival (in September-October).  "The yearly festival shows a
sudden upsurge in  the disease," a touring health worker of the
epidemiology division said, attributing it to the "unhealthy eating
habits." The epidemiology division has stressed on health awareness
like the need to boil water before drinking and  using bleaching
powder in water.


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                Nepalese road accidents kill 34,
           Landslides close road linking Nepal, India
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KATMANDU, August 10 (UPI):

     More than 34 people died and 20 others were injured in two
road accidents that prompted authorities to close one of two
highways linking the Nepalese capital with India and towns in south
Nepal,  an official announcement said.

    The authorities ordered the closure of the Chinese-funded and
constructed Prithvi highway ''because of frequent landslides during
the rains that have caused accidents,'' an announcement of the
Ministry of Works and Transport said.

    The authoritiess have urged people to use instead the old and
more circuitous Tribhuvan highway, constructed by the Indian army
in the 1950s.