Nepal authorities say 65 people were on board the buses missing in a river since Friday | Parami News

Authorities said on Tuesday that the two buses that had fallen into a swollen river in Nepal had 65 people in total, of which fourteen bodies have so far been recovered.

Eight of the bodies are identified and are being handed over to the relatives with six of them being Indian nationals.

These were two buses using the major road joining Nepal’s capital to its southern region but they were carried away on Friday morning near Simaltal, about 120 kilometers west of Kathmandu. The Trishuli river washed away their corpses for more than a distance of 100 kilometers.

Chitwan District Administration Office has released a list that contains names and details of all those who were on board. One bus had thirty-eight passengers while another had twenty-seven. From one of the buses three people managed to survive after being thrown out.

On Tuesday hundreds of policemen and soldiers went downstream searching for the buses but no trace was found yet.

Nepal’s rivers usually flow very fast because of the rough terrain. Continuous rains over several days during monsoons fill these rivers making them muddy brown while increasing visibility difficulties at such accident scenes.

They often result in landslides in this mountainous nation which is hit by heavy rains from June up to September called monsoon season in Nepal.