Rescuers have recovered three bodies of the victims who had gone missing in Friday’s Trishuli bus crash.

Chitwan police saud the bodies were found at Meghauli and Triveni barrages, some 60 kilometers south from the accident site, on Monday evening.

They were identified as Mukesh Ram and Rabiranjan Yadav and Sanjaya Kumar Yadav of Rautahat.

Radheraya Yadav, the father of Sanjaya Kumar, said as his family had no hope of finding his son, they had performed a symbolic last rites just three days ago.   

“We received a call today from police saying that Sanjay’s body was found,” Radheraya said on Tuesday.

The bus en route to Pokhara from Rautahat had plunged nearly 200 metres down the road into the Trishuli river at Chandibhanjyang-6 along the Muglin-Narayangadh road section on Friday.

With three bodies found, the toll of the incident has climbed to 25.