14 killed in Nepal bus plunge

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KATHMANDU, July 19(AFP): At least 14 people were killed when a passenger bus skidded off a mountain highway into a river in southern central Nepal, police said today.

"We have recovered 12 bodies from the Trishuli river and two died while undergoing treatment at a hospital," police officer Rabindra Bahadur Singh told AFP from Chitwan district, 70 kilometres (44 miles) southwest of Kathmandu.

The bus carrying more than 50 passengers was en route for the southern town of Bhairahawa from Kathmandu when it plunged into the swelling Trishuli river at Chandi Bhanjyang village overnight.