Four people died after a passenger bus fell down a cliff along the East-West Highway at Daunne of Nawalparasi (West) on Wednesday.

Deputy Superintendent of Police Raju Lama of the District Police Office, Nawalparasi (West) informed that the passenger bus en route to Rukum (West) from Kathmandu veered off the road and fell off the cliff leaving 42 others injured.

Of the deceased, police have been able to identify only a 27-year-old woman of Triveni Rural Municipality, Rukum (West). The identities of the remaining deceased are yet to be ascertained.

According to the police, of the injured, 35 of them are receiving medical treatment at the Community Hospital in Bardaghat, Chisapani while the other seven are receiving treatment at the Provincial Hospital in Butwal.