After two buses were swept into a valley by a large landslide, volunteers are searching for more than 60 missing individuals in Nepal.
Some described their agonizing suffering as” thrown out of the windows of the vehicle into the river.”
Only three persons appeared to had survived the crash, which occurred on Friday morning.
Authorities claimed the flood was caused by heavy rains.
Nepal and other elements of South Asia are currently experiencing heavy rain in recent days, which has caused floods and landslides that have affected millions of people.
The accident took place at 03: 30 local time ( 21: 45 GMT Thursday ) on Friday in Chitwan along the Narayanghat-Mugling highway, about 100km ( 60 miles ) from the capital Kathmandu.
The vehicle had been traveling on the road for about an hour and a half when it” started rolling down all of a sudden into the creek,” a victim told the BBC’s Nepali Service. I was concerned that I would pass away.
Even though it was “very dark at night,” he claimed he was able to float to health. The river was full of some big boulders and some greenery, as I discovered.
We swam, swam, and swam while chanting God’s title. God saved us.
I was not sure whether I was heading inward or outward, but I finally made it to the lender. Therefore I began escalating the slope.
He claimed that he and another victim were on the same lanes at the same time and that a third man soon followed them. They managed to get support from a pilot, who called the police.
The vehicle was” trembling and overturning four or five times before plunging into the creek,” according to Jogishwar Raya, a second victim.
He claimed he was able to get out of the vehicle, but his family people were still missing.
” My child, daughter-in-law, nephew, and a daughter were on the same vehicle. Out of five family people, I was only to survive, the remainder vanished”, he said.
Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the prime minister of Nepal, has urged all authorities organizations to participate in the search and rescue operation.
Numerous people are said to have died during the monsoon time, with some major routes blocked and some bridge swept away by swollen rivers.
Officials have urged people to stay alert as the Koshi valley, which passes through Nepal and India, is flowing above the dangerous levels.
Nepal frequently experiences fatal accidents as a result of careless driving and ill maintained roads.