Home Ministry Forms Probe Team into Dhading Bus Accident

Kathmandu. The Ministry of Home Affairs has formed a task force to investigate the bus accident that occurred in Dhading. Ministry spokesperson (Joint Secretary) Anand Kafle told Ratopati that a five-member task force led by a Joint Secretary has been formed to investigate the incident. He said, 'The names of the coordinator and members are yet to be finalized.'

The passenger bus with registration number Ga 2 Kha 1421, traveling from Pokhara, met with an accident on Monday morning at Bhaisigouda in Benighat Rorang Rural Municipality-5, Dhading. SP Dillinaryan Pandey of the Highway Security and Traffic Management Office, Ramnagar, told Ratopati that 19 people died in the accident.

Twenty-five people were injured in the accident. Before forming the investigation task force, Home Minister Omprakash Aryal held discussions with stakeholders. The meeting was attended by the Secretary of the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, the Director General of the Department of Transport Management, the chiefs of Nepal Police and Armed Police Force, and the Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs.