KATHMANDU: At least 16 students on an educational tour were killed and 12 others injured on Friday when a bus plunged into a ravine in western Nepal's Dang district.

Around 31 students and teachers of the Krishnasen Icchuk Technical School in Ghorahi were returning from a tour of a botanical garden in Salyan when the bus fell around 400 meters down into the ravine killing 16 people, police said.

Authorities and first responders rescued twelve injured persons and took them to Rapti Zonal Hospital for treatment. </s> The accident took place on Friday evening in Nepal's Dang district

At least 23 people were killed and 14 injured in Nepal when a bus carrying students and their teachers back from a botanical trip ran off a road and plunged into a ravine.

The accident took place on Friday evening in Nepal's Dang district. Most of the victims were students aged between 16 and 20, officials said. The bus was carrying 37 people at the time of the mishap, the police said.

The students and teachers were from the Krishna Sen Ichchhuk Polytechnic Institute in Ghorahi, Dang district, the Kathmandu Post reported on Saturday. They had been returning from a visit to a farm when the bus veered off the road near Ramri village.

Two teachers and the driver of the vehicle were among the dead.

Road accidents are common in Nepal, usually caused due to bad roads, poorly maintained vehicles and rash driving.

Last week 20 people died when a lorry carrying mourners from a funeral plunged into a river in central Nepal.

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At least 23 people died in Nepal when a bus carrying students and their teachers back from a botanical trip ran off a road and plunged 700m (2,300ft) into a ravine.

Another 14 people were injured in the crash in Dang district, western Nepal.

Most of the victims were students aged between 16 and 20, officials said. Two teachers and the driver also died.

The cause of Friday's crash appeared to be speeding, a police spokesman told AFP news agency.

The students and teachers were from the Krishna Sen Ichchhuk Polytechnic in Ghorahi, Dang district, the Kathmandu Post reported. They had been returning from a visit to a farm when the bus veered off the road near Ramri village.

Police said the bus had been carrying 37 people.

Road accidents are common in Nepal, usually caused by bad roads, poorly maintained vehicles and reckless driving.

Last week 20 people died when a lorry carrying mourners from a funeral plunged into a river in central Nepal. </s> Kathmandu: In a tragic accident 23 persons were killed and 14 injured as the bus in which they were travelling plunged into a ravine in Nepal.

The bus was carrying college students and their teachers back from an educational trip.

The vehicle veered off a mountainous road and plunged into the ravine, police said.

The fatal crash occurred on Friday when the bus was returning from Kapurkot in Salyan district.

According to the District Police Office, Dang, there were 37 persons 34 students, two teachers and a diver, on the ill-fated bus

The Kathmandu Post said the students and instructors from Krishna Sen Ichhuk Polytechnic Institute had gone to visit a farm for their botany project.

Police sources said poor road condition and reckless driving are mostly responsible for accidents in Nepal. </s> Twenty-three people were killed in southwestern Nepal when a bus carrying students and teachers back from a field trip veered off a road and plunged into a gorge on Friday, PTI reported. The bus was carrying 37 people – 34 students, two teachers and a driver.

Police officer Prem Bahadur Shahi told Al Jazeera that the bus was returning to Ghorahi town from an educational trip to Dang district when the accident took place near Tulsipur town on Friday. “It plunged about 700 metres below the road,” Shahi said, adding that the bodies of 16 people have been recovered so far.

Police said 14 people who were injured in the incident are undergoing treatment at a local hospital, reported The Kathmandu Post.

“Our preliminary investigation shows the cause of the incident was speed,” police officer Bel Bahadur Pandey told AFP. The students and teachers were from the Krishna Sen Ichhuk Polytechnic Institute and were visiting a farm in a nearby district for their botany field trip.

Last week, 20 people were killed when a mini-truck skidded off the road in Nuwakot district in central Nepal. </s> More than 20 persons have been killed in Nepal after a bus carrying dozens of passengers including students fell into a gorge.

The bus was returning from the Sallyan district to Dang, when it drove off the mountainous road and fell hundreds of meters down a cliff.

Police said preliminary investigations showed that speeding was likely to have cause the crash.

Around 14 people survived the fall and have been taken to the nearest hospital.

The passengers were students and teachers, who were returning from a botanical field trip. </s> A bus carrying college students and their teachers back from an educational trip veered off a mountainous road and lunged into a ravine in Nepal, killing 23 people and injuring 14 others.

The fatal crash occurred on Friday when the bus was returning from Kapurkot in Salyan district.

According to the District Police Office, Dang, there were 37 persons —34 students, two teachers and a diver, on the ill-fated bus, which drove off the road and fell some 700 metres down near Ramri village, about 400 kilometres west of the capital Kathmandu.

Fourteen persons, including five women, were injured in the incident.

The students and instructors from Krishna Sen Ichhuk Polytechnic Institute had been visiting a farm for their botany project, The Kathmandu Post reported. Poor road infrastructure and reckless driving are the leading causes of accidents in Nepal. </s> world

Updated: Sep 27, 2016 22:35 IST

Nineteen people died and more than a dozen were injured when an overcrowded bus went off a road in Dhading district of Nepal on Tuesday.

Police said 18 people were killed instantly and one passenger succumbed to injuries at a hospital in Kathmandu.

The bus plunged 300 feet after going off the road, district police chief Shrad Kumar Khatri said. Thirteen severely injured passengers were airlifted from the accident site to Kathmandu for treatment, chief district officer Bishow Subedi said.

The local administration said most of the passengers were survivors of the 2015 earthquake from a remote part of Dhading who were heading to the district headquarters to receive financial assistance announced by the government.

Police believe the accident could have occurred due to lack of maintenance of the road, which was damaged by recent rains.

A series of accidents in Nepal has raised questions about road safety. Officials said many accidents were caused by poor implementation of traffic rules and the poor condition of roads and vehicles. A majority of the accidents have occurred on roads running through hilly terrain.

First Published: Sep 27, 2016 18:08 IST </s> At least 24 people have been killed and dozens injured after an overcrowded bus veered off a mountain road and crashed into a stream 200m downhill in northwestern Nepal, according to local officials.

Suman Kharel, an official at the country's remote Jajarkot district, told the AFP news agency on Thursday that 16 people were killed instantly, while the other eight died in hospital.

The nearest hospital was struggling to cope with the number of casualties and some people were being taken to other districts for treatment, he said.

"The district hospital is crowded with injured and we are still searching for people at the accident site," Krishna Chandra Paudel, another local official, said.

Overcrowded

The officials blamed the accident on overcrowding, saying that there were about 50 passengers on the bus.

The vehicle, which was travelling down a narrow and windy road from the village of Khalanga in Jajarkot district to Khara in Rukun, was also in a poor state of repair, Paudel said.

Poorly maintained vehicles coupled with reckless driving and bad roads lead to numerous fatal road accidents in Nepal every year.
At least 23 people are killed and 14 injured in Dang Deukhuri District, Nepal, when a bus carrying students and their teachers returning from a botanical trip runs off a road and plunges 700 meters into a ravine.