Update: Please note that it has been now confirmed that initial reports of the bus being pelted with stones by protesters were wrong! See Kantipur's correction below: The passenger bus. Na 5 Kha 1665, that was being escorted by police personnel along the East-West Highway, lost control as it tried to overtake another vehicle at a narrow section of the road and overturned at 5 am this morning, informed Saptari Police DSP Narayan Chimoriya. Correction: The news titled "2 die as bus overturns after being hit by stones pelted by Morcha protesters" has been corrected. We apologise for publishing the news report incautiously with wrong information from the source. ____________ Two people were killed and more than two dozen people were injured in a road accident when a bus turned over at Koshi Barrage-Bhardaha Chowk, Bhardaha VDC road section. According to initial information, the incident took place after protesters pelted stone on the bus. One of the deceased is a 09-year-old girl from Tulsipur Municipality-7, Dang district. The other person deceased in the accident is not yet identified. ------------------------------------- Two people died while nine others were injured in a bus accident here at Bharadaha VDC in the district on Friday morning. According to the Area Police Office, Bhardaha, one of the deceased has been identified as nine-year-old Nirjala Basnet of Dhanusha, Tulsipur-7, whereas the identity of the other, has yet to be ascertained. However, police have recovered an ATM card named Jivan Kumar from the incident site. The incident took place after a commuter bus, Na 5 Kha 1664, heading toward Kakarvitta from Sindhuli, turned turtle after the driver lost control over the wheels. All the injured are undergoing treatment at Dharan-based B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences.