Chitwan: At least 15 people were injured after a passenger-carrying bus collided with a road divider at Ratnanagar Municipality-10 in the Chitwan district along the East-West Highway this morning. The bus, bearing the registration number Province 1-02-001 9162, was traveling from Lahan in Siraha to Kathmandu when the accident occurred.
According to National News Agency Nepal, the Deputy Superintendent of Police of the District Police Office in Chitwan, Rabindra Khanal, reported that the bus was carrying 39 passengers at the time of the accident. The injured passengers have been taken to two hospitals in Chitwan for treatment.