A 12-member Indian team, including four divers, has joined the search for two buses and passengers that went missing in Trishuli river last week.

The Indian team arrived in Chitwan on Saturday and started the search operation on Sunday morning.

Two buses carrying 65 passengers along the Narayanghat-Muglin road section were hit by a landslide in the wee hours of July 12 and swept away by the Trishuli River. Three of the passengers somehow managed to get outside the bus and swam to the bank.

Rescue and search teams from Nepal Army, Nepal Police and Armed Police Force (APF) have been searching the bus and the passengers since the incident, but they haven’t been able to trace the buses so far.

Here are some photos of the joint search operation captured by the Post’s reporter Ramesh Kumar Paudel.