42 hurt in Nawalparasi East bus accident

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Nawalparasi: At least 42 persons were hurt when a passenger bus skidded off the road and overturned in a forest between Arunkhola and Dumkibas in Madhyabindu municipality-10 in Nawalparasi East along the East-West Highway today.

Of the injured, 37 were receiving treatment at District Hospital and five others at a local health post at Dumkibas, said the police. All of the injured are said to be out of danger.

The bus (Lu 1 Kha 9476) was en route to Kathmandu from Nawalparasi.