15 injured in Chitwan bus accident

Chitwan, May 16: At 15 people were injured after a passenger-carrying bus collided against a road divider at Ratnanagar Municipality-10 in Chitwan district along the East-West Highway this morning.

The passenger-carrying bus (Province 1-02-001 9162) on its way to Kathmandu from Lahan in Siraha got into an accident, leaving 15 passengers injured, said Rabindra Khanal, the Deputy Superintendent of Police of the District Police Office, Chitwan.

The bus was carrying 39 passengers. The injured passengers are receiving treatment in two hospitals in Chitwan.