KATHMANDU, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- A car carrying seven people slipped off a mountain highway and plunged into Trishuli River at Ghoptebheer area of Chitwan District on Sunday evening in which three were killed and three others missing including a former Nepali minister, police said.
Former Minister for Home Affairs Madhav Prasad Ghimire, his family members and relatives were en route to Capital City Kathmandu from Mustan District when the accident happened, officials said.
Of the total seven passengers, the police recovered three bodies from the crash site while three others still have gone missing and one person rescued alive, a senior police officer of Chitwan District Binod Prakash Singh told local media.
Initial police investigation suggests that the former minister was driving the vehicle himself, local media reports said.
