The vehicle had more people than it could carry on board, preliminary probe shows.

The construction of a 15-bed hospital in Lekhpokhara, Chhatreshwari Rural Municipality-5, started a year and a half ago but the contractor company has stopped work citing non-payment.

The two men were on their way to celebrate election victory and had climbed on the roof of a bus when they touched electric live wires hanging overhead.

Lack of motorable roads makes birthing centres inaccessible to pregnant women while birthing centres closer home lack skilled health staff.

Wild animals from Banke National Park enter human settlements and destroy crops, local farmers say.

Seven students have lost their lives crossing the river in the past three years, say locals.

Families living in settlements near the Banke National Park say life has become unbearable as they cannot work in the fields or go to forests even during the day.

The residents of Bagchaur Municipality and Chhatreswori Rural Municipality are forced to visit private clinics since the primary health centres in the local units don’t have doctors or medicines.

A drinking water project has finally connected Chotre and Hingbare to a supply line.

The 40-bed district hospital does not have an ICU and ventilator facility in the absence of skilled manpower to operate the medical equipment.

The stone-and-mud building with four rooms shelters 129 inmates, including 22 women and three of their children.

The halt in surgical services has forced people in the district to go to Nepalgunj, Surkhet or other places for treatment.

Poor road condition, coupled with human negligence, unserviced old vehicles and disregard for traffic rules, leads to fatal road accidents.

The bus en route to Tulsipur of Dang from Salyan plunged into a river near Kapurkot Rural Municipality-5.

There are around 5,000 individuals living with disabilities in the district and most of them face difficulties in availing services from government offices.