Four dead in car accident

Four Korean tourists died in a car accident near Nepal's capital city of Kathmandu, Monday. / Courtesy of Sandeep Devkota

By Lee Min-hyung

Four Korean tourists have died and another was seriously injured in a car accident in Nepal on Monday, according to a foreign ministry official.

The ministry said a rental car the victims were traveling in crashed into a bus. They were driving from Pokhara to the nation's capital city of Kathmandu when the accident occured.

The dead included two men in their 60s and two women in their 50s. A man in his 60s survived the accident, but is in a critical condition, the ministry official said.

Following the incident, about 10 bus passengers were also injured and moved to a nearby hospital.

The accident took place due to thick fog in the highway, local police reported.