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Nine dead, 48 injured after bus crash in Nepal

At least nine people are dead and 48 others have been injured after a bus plunged 22 metres off a highway into the torrential Trisuli river.

Police say the accident happened on the Prithvi highway near Dhading, 42 kilometres west of the capital, Kathmandu.

Police said the accident happened after the bus tried to overtake another bus.

04/03/2002 05:36:48 | ABC Radio Australia News

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