<p class="title">Twenty-three people died in western Nepal when a bus carrying school students and teachers back from a botanical field trip plunged into a gorge, police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The students were aged mostly between 16 and 20. Two teachers and the driver also died in the accident early evening on Friday in a remote area.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The vehicle was carrying 37 people, with 22 killed at the scene and another in a nearby hospital. Fourteen people were treated for injuries.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Our preliminary investigation shows the cause of the incident was speed," police officer Bel Bahadur Pandey told AFP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Road accidents are relatively common in Nepal because of poor roads, badly maintained vehicles and reckless driving.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The latest comes a week after a truck accident in central Nepal killed 20 mourners returning from a funeral ritual.</p>
<p class="title">Twenty-three people died in western Nepal when a bus carrying school students and teachers back from a botanical field trip plunged into a gorge, police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The students were aged mostly between 16 and 20. Two teachers and the driver also died in the accident early evening on Friday in a remote area.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The vehicle was carrying 37 people, with 22 killed at the scene and another in a nearby hospital. Fourteen people were treated for injuries.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Our preliminary investigation shows the cause of the incident was speed," police officer Bel Bahadur Pandey told AFP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Road accidents are relatively common in Nepal because of poor roads, badly maintained vehicles and reckless driving.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The latest comes a week after a truck accident in central Nepal killed 20 mourners returning from a funeral ritual.</p>