Afrigather Medical personnel assist an injured bus passenger rescued from the Marsyangdi River in Tanahu District at Educating Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Friday. Twenty-seven Indian pilgrims had been killed and 16 injured when a passenger bus plunged into the river. Picture by Narendra Shrestha/EPA-EFE
Aug. 24 (UPI) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced Saturday the households of the 27 Indian residents who died in a vacationer bus crash in Nepal will obtain money compensation of round $2,300 every.
Money help of $600 might be supplied to the 16 others who had been injured in Friday’s accident, the prime minister’s workplace stated in a social media submit.
Modi earlier despatched his condolences to the victims, saying, “Saddened by the lack of lives because of a street mishap in Tanahun district, Nepal. Condolences to the bereaved households. Could the injured get better on the earliest. The Indian Embassy is offering all potential help to these affected.”
Officers stated the bus was carrying largely Indian non secular pilgrims from Pokhara, Nepal, in the direction of Kathmandu when it plunged 650 ft into the Marsyangdi River on Friday.
A army transport plane of the Indian Air Pressure on Saturday introduced the our bodies of 25 of the victims to Jalgaon within the Indian state of Maharashtra from Bharatpur in Nepal, the Press Belief of India reported.
