A Nepal police official said that the passenger bus with an Uttar Pradesh number plate that plunged into a river in Nepal's Tanahun district on Friday had originated from Gorakhpur and was carrying tourists from India
Rupandehi District Police Office Spokesperson DSP Manohar Bhatta told ANI over phone that the bus entered Nepal from Belahiya check-point in Rupandehi on August 20 with an eight-day permit.
Sub-Divisonal Magistrate Maharajganj is being sent to Nepal and the Additional District Magistrate of Maharajganj will coordinate, the Uttar Pradesh Relief Commissioner said.
Nepali lawmakers have raised objections to the remarks by Chinese Ambassador to Nepal, Chen Song, about the ongoing search operation in the Trishuli River to locate two missing passenger buses that were washed away in a mudslide, earlier this month.
Nepal has formally requested India's assistance in locating the two buses and over five dozen passengers swept away in the landslide in Central Nepal earlier on Friday morning.
Search teams and rescue personnel from the Nepal Army, Armed Police Force and the Nepal Police started their search in the Trishuli River alongside the Mugling- Narayangadh road section from Saturday morning.
Search and rescue operation has been launched in the Narayangarh-Muglin section of Madan-Ashrit highway in central Nepal after landslide swept two passenger bus earlier on Friday morning
As per the officials on the site of the incident, the bus is assumed to have been swept down to the Trishuli River which has swollen hampering the search and rescue operation.
18 people have lost their lives and more than 30 have been injured in a tragic accident where a double-decker sleeper bus rammed into a milk container on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway, in the Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday.
The adoption of retrofitting in inter-city diesel passenger buses, a recent report said that it is projected to add 6000-7000 direct jobs and 36,000-42,000 new indirect jobs over the next few years.
One person and 30 passengers were injured in a road accident that took place near Kyasampalli of Kamareddy district in Telangana in the early morning hours today.