India, March 15 -- A bus carrying Indian pilgrims in Nepal's Gandaki province on Saturday met with an accident and plunged down a slope. Seven people, all of them Indian natioanls, were killed and several others were injured in the accident after the bus veered off the road, police said.

A microbus carrying pilgrims was returning from Manakamana Temple when it plunged off the road in Gorkha District, PTI reported, quoting police. The deceased included two women and five men, Suraj Aryal, chief of the District Traffic Police Office, Gorkha district, said.

The deceased have been identified as Muthu Kumar (58), Anamalik (58), Meenakshi (59), Sivagami (53), Vijayal (57), Meena (58) and Tamilarsi (60).

Seven other injured passengers have be...