{"id":3553,"date":"2026-02-23T02:43:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T02:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2026-02-23T02:43:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T02:43:42","slug":"128696072-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=3553","title":{"rendered":"18 dead, several injured in Nepal after passenger bus plunges into river in Dhading &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\">\n<div class=\"_s30J clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"MwN2O\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"T22zO\">\n<section class=\"D3Wk1  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  VtlfQ\" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"D3Wk1\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"zPaFh\">\n<div class=\"wJnIp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-128696189,imgsize-1518297,width-400,resizemode-4\/pic-56.jpg\" alt=\"18 dead, several injured in Nepal after passenger bus plunges into river in Dhading\" title=\"Representative image\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>At least 18 people died and 25 were injured after a passenger bus plunged into the Trishuli River in Dhading, Nepal early Monday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"1\"\/>The bus, travelling from Pokhara to Kathmandu, was carrying more than 35 passengers when it fell into the river at Chinadhara near Charaundi in ward 3 of Benighat Rorang Rural Municipality at around 1:15am.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Chief of the District Traffic Police Office, Dhading, Shishir Thapa said the death toll has reached 18, reported the Kathmandu Post.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>Rajkumar Thakuri, chair of the Highway Rescue Management Committee, said the 25 injured passengers have been sent to the hospital for treatment.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>Personnel from the Nepali Army, Armed Police Force, Nepal Police and local residents are involved in the rescue operation. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>Authorities said the nighttime incident has made rescue efforts difficult. Further details are awaited.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/south-asia\/18-dead-several-injured-in-nepal-after-passenger-bus-plunges-into-river-in-dhading\/articleshow\/128696072.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 18 people died and 25 were injured after a passenger bus plunged into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9963,9961,9964,9966,9959,9965,9962,9960],"class_list":["post-3553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bus-crash-injuries","tag-dhading-news","tag-highway-rescue-management-committee","tag-kathmandu-post","tag-nepal-bus-accident","tag-nepali-army-rescue","tag-passenger-bus-plunge","tag-trishuli-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}