Thanks Urbi and Confused for posting the news. The TALLY (Please note: Though I have been careful NOT to count the figures from the same news from different sources twice, please do check my math and do prevent me from accidentally double-counting from time to time): ******** RESULTS so far: (a) DEAD: 32 + 3 = 35 dead, as per these REPORTED highway accidents in Nepal, since 11 Oct, 2004 (b) INJURED: 108 + 12 = 120-plus injured in these REPORTED highway accidents in Nepal since 11 Oct. 2004 (c) TOTAL victims (a + b) = 155-plus (d) Victims identified by their names: only 3 so far, in these reports. *************** Some PRELIMINARY observations based on these reports so far (version 1.0) 1. The names of the bus/truck companies are generally not given in these accident reports. This is odd, considering that most buses/trucks that ply on Nepal's highways are private-sector buses and trucks. 2. Names of the victims (both dead and injured) are usually not given. 3. The injured are counted in "bundles", as shown by this type of a routine sentence . . . "more than a dozen were injured". What does that mean? Were 13 people injured? 15? Such a sentence does not make the number of the injured clear. 4. The degrees of injury are never specified. (Some might have lost their legs; others mights have sustained minor injuries . . and so on) 5. The Xinua report above (posted by Urbi) says that there were "80 passengers" in and on (assuming if you count those passengers who sit on the roof) the bus. Question: 80 people in/on a bus that is speeding on a highway sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Is there an enforceable law of some sort that says something like you can't have people over this number in a moving bus of this size? More later; oohi ashu