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Missing. 51. The Madan Ashrit Highway disaster was a road accident on July 12, 2024 that was caused by a large landslide that pushed two buses carrying a total of 65 passengers on the Madan Ashrit Highway into the Trishuli River in Nepal. [ 1] The disaster left at least 11 people dead, [ 2] injured three people and left 51 people missing.
Madan Ashrit Highway or ( NH44) (previously: H05) ( Nepali: मदन आश्रित राजमार्ग) is one of Nepal's busiest international roadway link, carrying 90% of all international traffic, or about 20,000 vehicles daily. The 36 km road connects Naryangadh and Mugling. A 33.2 km section was being widened from 5 meters to 9 ...
Mugling (Nepali: मुग्लिङ; sometimes known as Muglin) is a town in Chitwan, Bagmati Province, Nepal. Mugling is located at an interchange of two majors highways: Prithvi and Madan Ashrit Highway (also known as Mugling-Narayanghat Highway). [1][2] Before the 1970s, Mugling was a fishing village at the confluence of Marshyangdi River ...
Nepal's worst crash in three decades killed 72 people in January 2023 and was blamed, for example, on the pilot's lack of awareness of standard operating procedures leading him to mistakenly cut ...
Prithvi Highway. The Prithvi Highway or NH04 (previously: H04) (Nepali: पृथ्वी राजमार्ग) is a 174-kilometre-long (108 mi) highway connecting Naubise of Tribhuvan Highway, 26 km from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, and Prithivi Chowk, Pokhara, a tourist city in the western part of Nepal. [ 1 ]
December 12 – Nepal – A truck carrying wedding guests veered off a mountain highway in Chedagad, killing all 12 people aboard. [365] December 13 – Nepal – A bus bumped the side wall of a mountainous road in Bethanchowk, killing 17 people and injuring 22. [365] December 17 – Afghanistan – Salang Tunnel fire. At least 12 people were ...
2006 Shree Air Mil Mi-8 crash. On 23 September 2006, a Shree Air Mil Mi-8 helicopter crashed on a chartered flight from Phungling to Ghunsa in Eastern Nepal. The accident killed all 24 passengers and crew on board, including an expedition of World Wide Fund for Nature. [1]
Fatalities. 13. Survivors. 0. On 12 May 2015, a US Marine Corps Bell UH-1Y Venom of Camp Pendleton -based HMLA-469 squadron crashed in the Charikot region of Nepal during Operation Sahayogi Haat, a humanitarian relief effort following the earthquake that had struck the region earlier. All 13 occupants were killed.