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15 people injured as microbus turns turtle in Sindhuli

Nepalkhabar

 |  Kathmandu

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Fifteen people have sustained injuries when a microbus met with an accident at Kamalamai in Sindhuli district.

A microbus, Ba 5 Kha 6618, with 19 people onboard heading to Biratnagar from Kathmandu turned turtle at Kamalamai Municipality-8, Sisneri at 4:30 am today.

Fifteen people including the driver sustained injuries, District Police Office, Sindhuli, SP Govinda Kafle told Nepalkhabar.

"Nine among those injured have been taken to BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan," SP Kafle told Nepalkhabar, "Remaining six injured have left for their destination following a preliminary treatment at a local health post."

A total of 19 people were traveling in the ill-fated microbus. The condition of three among those injured is said to be critical.

Vehicles are heading to east via an alternative route after the Kathmandu-Dhulikhel-Sindhuli-Bhiman route is damaged by the recent landslide and flooding.



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