As many as 55 people have gone missing with 21 vehicles plunging into the Trishuli river from the Narayangadh-Muglin section and the Muglin-Mauwakhola section of the Prithvi Highway in the last eight years.

Among those missing is former Home Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Madhav Prasad Ghimire.

The District Traffic Police Office stated that five vehicles went missing in the river in Fiscal Year 2016/17, four vehicles in FY 2017/18, four vehicles in FY 2018/19, one each in FY 2019/ 2020, FY 2020/ 21 and FY 2021/ 22 and five in FY 2022/23.

Fourteen people went missing in the missing vehicles in FY 2016/ 17, four people in FY 2021/ 22 and 37 people in FY 2023/ 24. Sixty-six vehicles met with accidents in the road sections during that period.

Among the vehicles that met with accidents on the road sections from FY 2016/ 17 to 2023/ 24 include 40 trucks, nine buses, 12 cars, three motorbikes and two other vehicles, according to the District Traffic Police Office.