Human Skeleton Discovered in Bus Wreckage Dug Up Near Trishuli River in Tanahun

A human skeleton has been found in the buried wreckage of the Ganapati Deluxe bus near the bank of the Trishuli River close to Dondrang Bensi, Aambukhairani Rural Municipality-5, Tanahun.

Police Inspector Pradip Subedi of the Area Police Office, Aambukhairani, informed that a skeleton of one person was discovered while excavating the bus, which went missing along with a landslide at Simaltal about a year and a half ago.

According to him, the human skeleton, consisting only of the upper part of the body above the waist, was found as about 40 percent of the bus was being cut and removed. The recovered skeleton has been sent to Bharatpur Hospital for examination.

The search operation was intensified 16 days ago after parts of the bus were spotted buried in the sand on the bank of the Trishuli River, about 300 meters downstream from the Simaltal accident site. The bus was located by a joint security team deployed from the Area Police Office, Aambukhairani, Armed Police Force Nepal No. 17 Battalion Chitwan, and No. 23 Manakamana Battalion Bhanu Tanahun.

On the morning of B.S. 2081 Asar 28, the Ganapati Deluxe bus (Province 03-001 Kha 2495) traveling from Kathmandu to Gaur, and the Angel Deluxe bus (Bagmati Province 03-006 Kha 1516) traveling from Birgunj to Kathmandu, fell into the Trishuli river after being swept away by a mudslide near the suspension bridge at Simaltal in Bharatpur Metropolitan City-29, Chitwan, and went missing.

Out of the 65 passengers on both buses, three passengers from the Ganapati transport bus managed to swim to safety. All others were swept away with the buses.