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Eighteen killed in Nepal tractor accident
Nov 10, 2011, 5:00 GMT
Kathmandu - Eighteen people were killed in eastern Nepal when a tractor pulling a trailer of passengers plunged into a canal, police said.
The tractor carrying Hindu pilgrims from Dhanusha district was headed to a religious fair when it fell into a canal in Bharaul, Sunsari district.
Police said the accident could have been caused by overcrowding, as nearly 50 people were travelling on the flatbed trailer behind the small tractor.
The victims were 16 women and two men. Twenty-four people were pulled alive from the canal, and had been hospitalised, police said, adding that local residents were helping them look for more survivors.
The Baraha Kshestra Haribodhan Ekadashi fair for Hindus draws hundreds of pilgrims every year.
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