{"id":41663,"date":"2026-02-06T08:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=41663"},"modified":"2026-02-06T08:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:44:31","slug":"baitadi-bus-accident-death-toll-reaches-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/baitadi-bus-accident-death-toll-reaches-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Baitadi bus accident: Death toll reaches 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Baitadi, Feb 6: The death toll has jumped to 13 in a tragic accident of a bus carrying wedding attendees. Eight among them died on the spot and five others breathed their last at Dadeldhura Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The Bajhang-bound bus (Supa Province 02 001 Kha 1119) from Purchaidi Municipality-7, Bhawane of Baitadi had met with the accident at Purchaidi-7 Badgaun Mode on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Baitadi Police Chief Deepak Kumar Roy informed that 40-year-old Keshav Raj Joshi from Bitthadchir Rural Municipality-7, Bajhang, 13-year-old Ashok Raj Joshi from the same place, 35-year-old Basanta Joshi, 41-year-old Bisna Dutta Joshi, 60-year-old Mohan Dev Bhatta from Kedarsyu Rural Municipality, Bajhang, 40-year-old Basanta Raj Ratala from Jayaprithvi Municipality, Bajhang, and 40-year-old Pushpa Awasthi from Purchaudi-7, Baitadi died on the spot. Identity of a deceased is yet to be established.<br \/>\nThose pronounced dead at Dadeldhura Hospital include 17-year-old Bisna Dutta Joshi from Bitthadchir Rural Municipality-7, Bajhang, 28-year-old Deepk Raj Joshi from the same place, 46-year-old Kisana Dutta Joshi, 27-year-old Keshav Raj Bhatta from Bassi, Kedarsyu Municipality-7, and 15-year-old Sushil Joshi from Purchaudi Municipality-7, Baitadi.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-four others injured in the accident are being treated in Dadeldhura, Dhangadhi, and Bajhang. The bride and groom however were not onboard the bus, it is informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baitadi, Feb 6: The death toll has jumped to 13 in a tragic accident of a bus carrying wedding attendees. Eight among them died on the spot and five others breathed their last at Dadeldhura Hospital. The Bajhang-bound bus (Supa Province 02 001 Kha 1119) from Purchaidi Municipality-7, Bhawane of Baitadi had met with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41665,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41663\/revisions\/41665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}