Accidents on three of Nepal's rivers since mid-October have left people dead and others missing, and searches are continuing.
On the Saptakoshi, a motorboat carrying 15 people, including its driver, from Kopche in Bhojpur towards Chatara in Sunsari met with an accident on the afternoon of October 25. A police team from Barahakshetra rescued 12 people alive, three of whom later died in hospital, and three passengers are missing, Nepal Watch reported. Nepal Police and Armed Police Force teams are searching, and police have taken the boat's driver into custody.
On the Sunkoshi, two of the three passengers missing since a Sumo jeep fell about 200 metres into the river at Nagthan in Sindhuli were found dead about a week later, on riverbanks in Udayapur and Sunsari, police said. The third, Roshan Kumar Magrati, 26, is still missing. Three people died in the crash itself and four were injured. Republica and Nepal Khabar date the crash to October 18; Nagarik's Nepali report gives Kartik 2, which is October 19.
On the Narayani at Gaindakot, Nawalpur, 17-year-old Barsha Sunar and 15-year-old Pratik Sapkota, who went into the river to help her, have been missing since October 26; a second boy who went in with Pratik was pulled out alive. On October 27 an unidentified man jumped from the Narayani bridge in Gaindakot and is missing, according to the district police office.
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Two of the three passengers missing since a jeep fell into the Sunkoshi in Sindhuli on October 18 have been found dead, and three people are missing in the Narayani at Gaindakot.
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