Mishap injures exiled Bhutanese youth

Kathmandu, December 12: Chakra Mani Gautam, a resident of Beldangi-II sector E/1-132 has been admitted toTU Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu on Tuesday after he was seriously injured when a bus Lu.1.Kha 3768 met an accident at Sunwol, Nawalparasi district Monday night.

Gautam is diagnosed to have broken his left leg. Doctors at the hospital have asked him to undergo major operation by incising out the leg.

Some more than four dozens including teachers and students of Canal Center English Boarding School, Nawalparasi were returning to school after completing an educational tour when the accident occurred. Parbati Bhushal of grade 9 died while most of the injured passengers have been brought to Kathmandu for further treatment.

Gautam, who has been enrolled in Bachelor’s degree in humanities, was working as a secondary level teacher at the boarding school for the past three years.

Locals, school management committee and bus owners are managing the necessary costs for the treatment. Bhutan News Service/T.P. Mishra