6 dead, 17 injured in bus accident in Palpa

Six people have died while 17 others have been injured in a bus accident at Laghuwa, Ribdikot Rural Municipality-2 in Palpa this afternoon.

Om Prasad Pokharel, Ward Chairman of Ribdikot Rural Municipality ward no. 2, informed that a bus with registration no. Lu 1 Ja 5952 en route to Butwal from Gulmi skidded off the road. 

The bus fell down one and a half hundred meters from the road