A human remains were also found during the excavation on Monday evening.
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The excavation work for the Ganapati Deluxe bus found on the banks of the Trishuli River has been stopped after 17 days. The excavation work for the bus was started on December 10 after some parts of the vehicle were found on the banks of the Trishuli River in Dongdrangbesi, Aanbukhaireni Rural Municipality-5, Tanahun.
During the excavation, the excavation work was further intensified after it was confirmed that one of the two vehicles that fell into Trishuli with a landslide from Simaltal Lake, Bharatpur-29, Chitwan on Asad 28, 2081 was a Ganapati Deluxe. A human remains were also found on Monday evening.
The remains have been kept at the Bharatpur Hospital morgue for further examination. Tanahun Chief District Officer (CDO) Shivlal Tiwari informed Kantipur that further excavation work has been stopped as all the parts of the vehicle found during the excavation were cut and removed. ‘All the parts that could be excavated have been removed, and the work has been stopped as it was not possible to do more,’ said CDO Tiwari.
Tanahun’s Milan Chainpuli Company, Nepal Police, and Armed Police Force teams were continuously excavating. On Poush 27, a local person had informed the police after finding the remains of the vehicle while fishing. From that day, Nepal Police and Armed Police Force had started digging sand and removing the remains using shovels.
On Ashad 12, 2002, a Ganapati Yatayat bus (No. 03-001 Kha 2495) going from Kathmandu to Gaur and a Bagmati Province bus (No. 03-006 Kha 1516) going from Birgunj to Kathmandu were swept away by a landslide in Simaltal, Bharatpur, 22 kilometers northeast of Narayangadh, and fell into Trishuli and disappeared.
Although the buses reached the river, three passengers on the Ganapati Yatayat bus swam to the surface. All the others were swept away with the bus. Only a few bodies were found among those who were involved in the accident.
Five hundred security personnel, including divers from the Nepal Army and the Armed Forces, water drones (sonar), and police, were deployed to search for the bus and passengers. The government had also brought in high-tech divers from India for further search.
