The bus, carrying tourists from Maharashtra State in the center-west of India, was en route to Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, from Pokhara, a popular tourist destination. Nepal gets a lot of Indian tourists, mostly families who arrive by road to visit major Hindu temples. The cause of the accident was not immediately clear.

Officials say a bus carrying dozens of Indian pilgrims has driven off a highway in Nepal, leaving 27 killed and 16 injured

A bus carrying 43 Indian tourists and crew members plunged into a rain-swollen river in neighbouring Nepal on Friday, killing more than half of those on board, a Nepali armed police spokesperson said.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Saturday the families of the 27 Indian citizens who died in a tourist bus crash in Nepal will receive cash compensation of around $2,300 each.

An Indian Air Force plane on Saturday (August 24) airlifted the bodies of tourists who were killed in a deadly bus accident in Nepal to bring them home. A bus carrying 43 Indian tourists and crew members plunged into a rain-swollen river in neighbouring Nepal on Friday (August 23),

A military transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force on Saturday brought to Maharashtra's Jalgaon 25 mortal remains of Indian pilgrims from Bharatpur in Nepal

A devastating bus accident in Nepal has claimed the lives of 27 Indian pilgrims, including 25 from Maharashtra and two from Uttar Pradesh. The accident occurred on Friday when a bus carrying the pilgrims veered off the highway and plunged into the fast-flowing Marsyangdi River in the Tanahun district,