A person injured in a bus accident that occurred at Chagunarayan Municipality-9 on Tuesday afternoon succumbed to injuries while undergoing treatment on Wednesday.

The deceased identified as Purna Bahadur Bhandel, 60, succumbed to injuries in course of treatment at Madhyapur Thimi-based Madhaypur Hospital this morning.

The accident took place after a passenger bus veered off the road and fell some 150 meters in Budathoki Gaun, near the Changunarayan temple in Bhaktapur on Tuesday.

Eight of the passengers were seriously injured, said SP Kiran Bajracharya of the Metropolitan Police Circle Bhaktapur. Two of them were referred to BNB Hospital, Gwarko, and one to the TU Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj.

The bus (Ba 2 Kha 6817) from Ratnapark was headed for Changunarayan.

Other injured are being treated at Bhaktapur Hospital, Iwamura Hospital and Madhyapur Hospital in Thimi. The bus was carrying three dozen passengers.

According to SP Bajracharya, the bus had the accident as the road had caved in due to an incessant downpour.

The injured are identified as Srijan KC, 15, Sajan Pariyar,14, Ripesh Maharjan, 15, Leelamani Bhandel, 30, Rukmani Bhandel, 36, Bhawana Pariyar,28, Bikki Tamang, 8, Suman Bhandel, 11, Nanumaya Bhandel, 37, Ujjwal Bhandel, 11 and Sabita Tamang, 20 of the Changunarayan area.

Nawaraj Shrestha, 26, Bhuwan Raj Shrestha, 36 and Kritika Tamang, 24 of Changunaryan, and Manju Basnet, 40, of Nala, Kavre-3, Bishnumaya Shrestha, 60, of Sarlahi, bus driver Binod Prajapati,24, of Chyamasingh, Bhaktapur Municipality-1, his assistant Suraj Bhattarai, 19, of Jhapa-1, Rahul Bhattarai, 19, and Pradeep Bhattarai, 25, of Dolahpa, Prakash Karki 20, of Panauti, Kavre and Rajan Bhandel, 14, are also injured in the accident.