Publish Date: 9 September 2023 - 13:40

TEHRAN, Sep. 09 (MNA) – Seven people were killed and 27 others injured when a passenger bus crashed into a truck on Friday night in the Banke district of western Nepal, local police said on Saturday.

The bus with 41 tourists on board hit a truck parked on the East-West Highway, Xinhua reported citing a police officer from Banke Sundar Tiwari.

"It seems the overspeeding bus hit the truck, causing the fatal accident," Tiwari told Xinhua, noting that all the injured, two of them in critical condition, were receiving treatment at a local hospital.

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