Death toll in Dhading bus accident has reached 33 after police recovered a body of a woman on Friday.

According to the description provided by the family members, the body might be of 18-year-old Puja Jha, Inspector Barun Bahadur Singh of the Area Police Office, Gajuri.

The body was recovered from the river section near the Nepal Army Barrack at Gajuri, three kilometers away from the incident site.

Inspector Singh said that police have already called the family members to identify the body.

The body of three-year-old Pratik Jha is yet to be recovered.

Earlier on Thursday, police found the body of Abhinanda Chaudhary. His body has been handed over to the family members after conducting postmortem this afternoon.

The family of Ramanath Jha of Tilathi Koyeladi Rural Municipality of Saptari had lost his whole family—two song, two daughter-in-laws, two grandsons— in the accident.

Jha’s sons—Sanjit Kumar Jha and Anjit Kumar Jha, Sanjit’s wife Sima Jha and his son Abhinab were killed in the incident.

Sanjit’s youngest son Pratik, 3, is still missing.

Similarly, Sanjit’s bother-in-law Bitu Jha, mother-in-law Chandrika Devi Jha had also list their life in the incident.

Hence, police suspect that the body they recovered today could be of Puja.

Sanjit is a staff of Nepal Bank Ltd.

Two persons including the bus driver are still unaccounted for.

The ill-fated bus was heading towards Kathmandu from Rajbiraj when the tragedy took place at around 5 am on Saturday.

Some local youths had immediately reached the accident site and rescued some passengers.

The bus driver, who fled the scene after the incident, has not yet come into contact.

According to a survivor, he saw bus driver Santosh Chalise, who had sustained deep cut on his head, fleeing the scene after the accident.