{"id":56456,"date":"2026-10-09T17:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=56456"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:33:07","slug":"pokhara-school-bus-accident-three-deceased-and-injured-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/pokhara-school-bus-accident-three-deceased-and-injured-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Pokhara school bus accident: Three deceased and injured identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Gandaki, Oct 9: Two students at Pokhara-based Kalika English Boarding School- Mamata Tiwari and Asim Kandel- died in a school bus accident occurred at Kalika of Pokhara Metropolis-28, Kaski.<br \/>\nLocal Baburam Tiwari, 65, who asked for a ride in the school bus was killed in the accident, according to Superintendent of Police, Nabin Karki. The remaining two who died in the accident are yet to be identified.<\/p>\n<p>The injured ones are Srishti Tiwari, 16; Shisan Thapa Magar, 16; Saugat Timilsina, 16; Asmi Kandel, 15; Sneha Gautam, 14; Sonia Tiwari,13; and Ankit Parajuli, 13. They all are the residents of Pokhara Metropolitan City-28.<\/p>\n<p>Police stated that Smriti Khatri, 15; Sneha Tiwari, 16; Akriti Budhathoki, 14; Merina Tiwari, 15; Supriya Acharya, 14; and Yaman Magar, 16 are the residents of Madi Rural Municipality-12, while bus driver, Tul Bahadur Gurung, 57 from Pokhara-15. All of them were injured.<br \/>\nSP Karki further informed RSS that the injured ones have been undergoing treatment at the Pokhara Academy of Health Sciences and Gandaki Medical College.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5-member probe committee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Pokhara Metropolis has formed a five-member committee to investigate facts surroundings the school bus accident.<\/p>\n<p>The committee formed under the convenorship of senior education officer Badrinath Subedi includes mechanical engineer Saroj Chalise, Municipal Education Committee member Dolraj Pandey, Municipal police inspector Purushottam Thapa and traffic assistant inspector Amrit Bhattarai. The committee is mandated to submit its report within the next five days.<\/p>\n<p>The bus carrying students from Majhthana met the accident at a cliff of Okhle, resulting in the deaths of five persons, including four students. At least 14 students were injured in the accident. The local government expressed its deep sorrow over the fatal accident, paying tribute to the dead. It has extended heartfelt condolence to the grieving families.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Dhanraj Acharya said the committee would find measures to prevent such accidents from recurring in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gandaki, Oct 9: Two students at Pokhara-based Kalika English Boarding School- Mamata Tiwari and Asim Kandel- died in a school bus accident occurred at Kalika of Pokhara Metropolis-28, Kaski. Local Baburam Tiwari, 65, who asked for a ride in the school bus was killed in the accident, according to Superintendent of Police, Nabin Karki. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56456","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\/56456"}],"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=56456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56458,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56456\/revisions\/56458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}