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Pasang Lhamu bus crash

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Time
  
13:30

Damage
  
A bus

Location
  
Madanpur, Bagmati, Nepal

Country
  
Nepal

Cause
  
Speeding

Date
  
6 February 2016

Total number of deaths
  
11

Injuries
  
12

On 6 February, 2016, a (Ba 1 Ja 7583) passenger bus carrying 5 civilians and 18 Nepalese Armed Forces recruits from the Bidur Army Training Centre on leave in Kathmandu and returning to Trishuli, speeded and veered off course along the Pasang Lhamu highway in Madanpur, Bagmati. At 13:30, the passenger bus fell off the Keurini cliff, below the road, into a ravine. Eleven were killed, including 7 soldiers and the driver.

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Pasang Lhamu bus crash Wikipedia