Rautahat/hetauda, Nov. 12 -- Ten people were killed and five others injured when an electric microbus plunged off the road at Chisapani Gadhi in Bhimphedi Rural Municipality-6 of Makawanpur district on Thursday morning.

Two of the deceased have been identified as driver Ravi Shankar Kumar Mandal, from ward 8 of Kabilasi Municipality in Sarlahi district, and Subek Yadav, from Sundarpur Tole in ward 4 of Chakraghatta Rural Municipality.

The dead include three women, two girls and five men. All died at the scene. The identities of the remaining eight victims are being established, said Krishna Kumar Yadav, chairman of Chakraghatta Rural Municipality.

Yadav said the victims were returning home to celebrate the Chhath festival.

Police said...