Kumar said that 51 passengers from Maharashtra are being safely transported from Nepal to India in a travel bus. The passengers are being brought to Gorakhpur under the supervision of police escort and Additional District Magistrate.
A bus carrying around 43 passengers mostly Indian tourists, veered off the road into the Marsyangdi River at Ainapahara in Nepal's Tanahun District on August 23.
As many as 27 tourists were killed after a bus carrying around 43 passengers mostly Indian tourists, veered off the road into the Marsyangdi River at Ainapahara in Nepal's Tanahun District.
The Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS), Sumeet Singhal, has authorised the operation of freight and passenger trains on the 16.725-kilometre newly laid broad-gauage line between Bhairabi and Hortoki on August 22.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis expressed his condolences on the death of Indian passengers after a bus bearing a number plate of Uttar Pradesh plunged into a river in Nepal, killing 14 in the process on Friday.
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.
As many as seven people were killed and 20 were injured after a school bus carrying 27 passengers lost control and fell in a gorge near Durbuk, Ladakh on Thursday, officials said.