{"id":17816,"date":"2026-02-23T14:31:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=17816"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:31:39","slug":"19-killed-in-bus-crash-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2026\/02\/23\/19-killed-in-bus-crash-in-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"19 killed in bus crash in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>19 killed in bus crash in Nepal <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Out of 44 total, 25 are currently undergoing treatment<\/p>\n<p><strong>KKATMANDU: A BUS IN Nepal skidded off a mountain road and plunged into an icy river on Monday, killing at least 19 people, according to police source<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A bus in <a href=\"http:\/\/@MofaNepal\"><strong>Nepal<\/strong> <\/a>plunged into an icy river on Monday, claiming at least 19 lives, police said. The vehicle, traveling from the tourist city of Pokhara to the capital, Kathmandu, skidded off a mountain road and fell over 200 meters (655 feet) into the Trishuli River in Dhading district during the early morning hours.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"401\" data-end=\"657\">\u201cOut of 44 passengers, 19 have died and 25 are receiving medical treatment,\u201d senior police officer Prakash Dahal told AFP, confirming that one of the deceased was a British national. A Chinese citizen and a New Zealander were among the injured, he added.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"659\" data-end=\"822\">Mohan Prasad Neupane, information officer at the district administration office, said the rescue operation concluded by dawn, with the injured now being treated.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"824\" data-end=\"1086\">This incident echoes a previous tragedy in July 2024, when two buses carrying over 50 people each were swept into the same river following a landslide. Road accidents remain common in Nepal due to poorly maintained vehicles, unsafe roads, and reckless driving.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 killed in bus crash in Nepal Out of 44 total, 25 are currently undergoing treatment KKATMANDU: A BUS IN Nepal skidded off a mountain road and plunged into an icy river on Monday, killing at least 19 people, according to police source A bus in Nepal plunged into an icy river on Monday, claiming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2299],"tags":[3755],"class_list":["post-17816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-nepal-bus-crash"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17819,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17816\/revisions\/17819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}