MAKWANPUR, Nov 12: Ten people were killed and five others injured when a passenger EV Hiace plunged off the road in Chisapani Gadhi, Bhimphedi Rural Municipality-6, Makwanpur, on Thursday morning.
The accident occurred at around 5:45 am along the Bhimphedi-Kulekhani-Kathmandu road section. The EV Hiace, bearing registration number Ma. Pra. 03-001 Ja 0880, was travelling from Kathmandu to Sarlahi when it plunged around 500 metres down a steep slope.
According to the latest details, the deceased include three women, five men and two girls. The injured include two boys and three men.
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Earlier, three injured passengers were taken to Hetauda Hospital at around 7:40 am. Two of them, identified as 33-year-old Mukesh Yadav and five-year-old Saksham Kumar Yadav of Sundarpur Tole in Chakraghatta Rural Municipality-4, Sarlahi, are in normal condition.
The third injured passenger, three-year-old Sudan Yadav, is in moderate condition, police said.
Preliminary information indicated that between 14 and 15 people, including the driver, were travelling in the vehicle at the time of the accident.
Following reports of the accident, a seven-member rescue team led by Police Assistant Sub-Inspector Dipendra Dhakal from the Area Police Office in Bhimphedi was deployed to the site.
Similarly, 10 personnel from the Armed Police Force, 11 from the Nepali Army, and 10 from the Makwanpur District Police Office under the command of Superintendent of Police Shyam Bahadur Khatri were mobilised. Another 10-member team from the Bagmati Province Disaster Management Battalion in Thanabharang also joined the rescue operation.
The cause of the accident and further details about the identities of the deceased and injured are yet to be established. Police said they were collecting additional information about the incident.
