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12 drown as truck carrying wedding party plunges into river.

KATHMANDU Kathmandu
 or Katmandu

City (pop., 2001: 671,846), capital of Nepal. Situated near the confluence of the Baghmati and Vishnumati rivers at an elevation of 4,344 ft (1,324 m), it was founded in 723.
, May 18 Kyodo

Twelve people drowned Friday Friday: see Sabbath; week.

Friday

young Indian rescued by Crusoe and kept as servant and companion. [Br. Lit.: Robinson Crusoe]

See : Servant
 in Nepal when a heavy truck carrying a wedding party plunged into the Trisuli river in the central part of the country, police said.

One person managed to jump off the truck as it veered off the Prithvi
see Prithvi missile for the ballistic missile named after the goddess.


Prithvi (Sanskrit:
 Highway into the deep river around 6:45 a.m. at Chandi pass in Chitwan district Chitwan district, a part of Narayani zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Bharatpur(seventh largest city of Nepal) as its district headquarters, Bharatpur is the commercial and service center of central south .

It was not known how many people were traveling in the vehicle, normally used for transportation of goods, which now lies submerged in the water. But the police quoted the survivor as saying a dozen people had drowned.

The truck was transporting a marriage party from nearby Dhading district.
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Publication:Asian Economic News
Date:May 21, 2001
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