Ten Killed and Five Injured as a Passenger Van Plunges Down a Slope in Nepal's Makawanpur District: Fifteen People Were Aboard in the Early Morning Crash at Bhimphedi, and the Dead Include Three Women and Two Girls
KATHMANDU, Nepal — A passenger van veered off a mountain road in Nepal on Thursday, November 12, killing at least 10 people and injuring five, police said, according to the Associated Press. The van rolled about 700 metres, or 2,300 feet, off the road before stopping on a slope near the village of Bhimphedi, about 60 kilometres, or 37 miles, southwest of the capital, Kathmandu.
Local reporting put the accident at about 5:45 a.m. at Chisapani Gadhi in Ward 6 of Bhimphedi Rural Municipality in Makawanpur district, Bagmati Province. The electric van was carrying 15 people, including the driver, travelling from Kathmandu to Sarlahi. Deputy Superintendent of Police Madhav Kafle, spokesperson for the Makawanpur District Police Office, confirmed the number aboard.
Police said the dead included three women, five men and two girls, and that their identities were yet to be confirmed. The injured received treatment at Hetauda Hospital.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation. According to Nepal Police, 2,707 people died in road accidents during the 2025 26 fiscal year, which ended in mid July. The casualty figures in this item follow the Associated Press and district police accounts; a separate report putting the toll at 14 conflicts with those accounts and was not used.
Source: Associated Press
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