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Two children died after being crushed by a tractor at Samewa in Bharapa of Hilihang Rural Municipality-7, Panchthar on Wednesday. Police identified the deceased as Pujana Subedi (13) and Ganga Subedi (11), daughters of Kamal Subedi. Police said that the Subedi duo, who were traveling in the tractor (Me 1 Ta 2961), died after they accidentally fell down to be crushed by the rear wheel of the same vehicle. DSP Hari Khatiwada of the District Police Office, Panchthar said that the tractor turned turtle after the driver tried to escape from the incident site. It has been learnt that 11 students were traveling in the tractor. Police said that the driver and the assistant driver of the tractor are at large. Pujana was an eighth grader and Ganga fourth grader at the Bhawani Secondary School in Hihihang.  

A person died and four others were injured when a bus and a motorbike collided with each other at Jarankhu in Tarkeshwor on Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Jogendra Prasad Gupta. Incapacitated in the incident, he breathed his last during the course of treatment at the Medicity Hospital, Traffic police spokesperson Rajendra Prasad Bhatta said. Police said that they are looking into the case.

Kami Rita Sherpa created history by climbing Mt Everest for the 27th time on Wednesday. The 53-year-old climber stood atop the world’s highest peak at 8: 30 am today, Yuwaraj Khatiwada, Director of the Department of Tourism, said. The permanent resident of Thame in Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality of Solukhumbu district and currently residing in Kathmandu, Kami Rita broke his own record by climbing Mt Everest for 27^th time today. Khatiwada said that the expedition was going on in full swing and the number of expedition groups making it to the top of Mt Everest today could not be ascertained owing to lack of communications with the climbers inching towards the summit. He said that there was a high prospect of many mountaineers reaching atop Everest by this evening. "Some 'good news' could be broken by this evening," he said. Imagine Nepal Treks and Expedition Company's Director Mingma Gyalzen Sherpa said that over 100 mountaineers including Kami Rita have climbed Mt Everest so far this spring while as many were on a summit push bid today. "Kami Rita’s latest ascent has spread a message to the world that the mountaineering sector of Nepal is safe," asserted Khatiwada. Kami Rita, who first set his feet atop the Everest on May 13, 1994, has climbed many mountains over 8,000 meters at home and abroad over 39 times till date. Meanwhile, Pasang Dawa Sherpa is trailing Kami Rita and ascended Everest for the 26th time this spring. A record number of climbers are attempting to scale Mt Everest this spring as Nepal issued the highest number of the Everest climbing permits in history for the season since the first successful ascent of the Everest on May 29, 1953. The Department issued 478 permits for 44 groups for this season.  

The government on Wednesday decreased the fare of long-route public vehicles. The Department of Transport Management slashed the fare of long-route public vehicles after the Nepal Oil Corporation decreased the price of diesel. Issuing a notice today, the Department said that the fare of public vehicles has been adjusted automatically based on the fuel price. The fare of public vehicles has been reduced by 3.20 percent. Similarly, the fare of goods carrier vehicles operated in the hilly route has decreased by 4.19 percent and that of the goods carrier vehicles operated in Tarai routes by 4.65 percent.