Six killed in Nepal road accident

At least six people were killed and 16 injured when a passenger bus skidded off a highway in Nepal's Rupandehi district bordering India, police said.

The bus bound for Nepalgunj from Narayangarh when the accident took place along the East-West Highway on Saturday, Xinhua news agency quoted police as saying.

The injured were warded in a hospital. Four of them were said to be in critical condition.