{"id":5270,"date":"2024-07-16T13:57:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T08:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=5270"},"modified":"2024-07-16T13:57:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T08:12:27","slug":"simaltal-landslide-15-bodies-retrieved-eight-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/simaltal-landslide-15-bodies-retrieved-eight-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Simaltal landslide: 15 bodies retrieved, eight identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, July 16: Fifteen bodies, out of 65, who went missing after two passenger buses plunged into the Trishuli River following a landslide at Simaltal of Bharatpur metropolis-29 in Chitwan, have been found. Among the retrieved bodies, eight have been identified.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Armed Police Force (APF) updates, till 9:30 am today, they have ascertained the identities of eight victims including three Indian citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Those Indian nationals are Rhishipal Sah, 28, from Sitamani of Bihar, Jaya Prakash Thakur, 30 from Betiya Thana of Paschim Champaran and Sajad Ansari, 30, of Betiya Majheiliya.<br \/>\nSimilarly, Bikash Pariyar, 22, of Madi-2, Chitwan; Ramit Kushar Majhi, 19, of Barhathawa-3, Sarlahi; Sudip BK, 23, of Patahani of Bharatpur metropolis-22, Paramananda Pundit, 43, of Bishrampur-6, Bara; and Firoj Miya of Rautahat-17.<\/p>\n<p>APF&#8217;s Joint Spokesperson Deputy Superintendent of Police, Shailendra Thapa, said their relatives have already received the bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Seven dead including one woman are yet to be identified and their bodies were retrieved from Golaghat, Salabas, and Sisawar of Chitwan, Gaidakot, Bhutaha, and Tribeni Barrage of Nawalpur.<br \/>\nIt may be noted that on Friday, two passenger buses fell into the Trishuli River after being caught in a landslide at Simaltal. One bus (Bagamati Province 3-006 Kha 1516) was traveling from Birgunj to Kathmandu, while the other (Bagamati Province 03-001 Kha 2459) was en route to Gaur from Kathmandu.<\/p>\n<p>It is said 65 passengers were onboard the two buses: 38 on the bus bound for Kathmandu from Birgunj and 38 on the next. Three passengers of the bus on the Kathmandu-Gaur route could save lives by jumping from the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Jugeshwor Raya Yadav and Saroj Kumar Gupta of Garuda municipality-19 in Rautahat have already returned home while Nandan Das of Dewahi Banahi municipality-10 in Rautahat is under medical treatment, it is said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, July 16: Fifteen bodies, out of 65, who went missing after two passenger buses plunged into the Trishuli River following a landslide at Simaltal of Bharatpur metropolis-29 in Chitwan, have been found. Among the retrieved bodies, eight have been identified. According to the Armed Police Force (APF) updates, till 9:30 am today, they have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5270","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\/5270"}],"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=5270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5272,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions\/5272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}