According to Sunsari district police office, five people who were injured in the accident died, 23 people are being treated and three people are in normal condition and have gone home.
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Sunsari Bhokraha-Narasingh Rural Municipality-3 Jaluwa Toll, East-West Highway, the death toll in the traffic accident on Monday has reached five.
The deceased are 35-year-old Shankar Mandal of Saptari Mahdeva Rural Municipality-6, 60-year-old Anaravati Devi Yadav of Tirhut Rural Municipality, 68-year-old Jeevach Mahatman of Saptari Goithi, 70-year-old Lakshman Sada of Sunsari Koshi Rural Municipality-6 and 40-year-old Ashok Yadav of Biratnagar Metropolitan Municipality-10, said Yograj Khatiwada, Deputy Superintendent of Police, District Police Office Sunsari.
Bus number May1Kh 1799 going from Kakdvitta to Diktel in Khotang and micro (Winger) number P2-01-001 J 0047 coming from the opposite direction collided with each other.
Shankar, Laxman and Ashok died at Global Cardio and Neuro Hospital in Bhokraham, District Hospital of Anarvati at Inaruwa and Jivach at Nobel Teaching Hospital in Biratnagar, Pranau Khatiwada said.
28 people were injured in the accident. According to Sunsari District Police Office, five of the injured have died, 23 are undergoing treatment and three have gone home as their condition is normal. According to the district police office, 20 injured people are being treated at Global Cardio and Neuro Hospital Bhokraha and Golden Hospital in Biratnagar.
The bus driver, 36-year-old Gopal Adhikari of Jhapa Arjundhara Municipality-1, is under the control of the bus police. The police said that the incident is being investigated. It is assumed that the accident happened due to the rain and the speed of the vehicle.
