Answer:On Oct. 28, at least 31 people were killed and 16 seriously injured as an overcrowded passenger bus drove off the highway and plunged into the Trishuli River in central Nepal.
Two days later, at least 20 people lost their lives in two separate road accidents in the hilly districts of Gulmi and Udayapur.
The common cause of the accidents, according to officials, was that the vehicles were overloaded with passengers and heavy goods, beyond their capacities. With fatal accidents becoming fairly common with numerous road users losing their lives, serious questions have been raised in this small South Asian country about road safety.
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