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Van crashes on mountain road in Nepal, 10 killed and 5 injured

Verified: 3 outlets in 2 countries have reported this story since Nov 12. 10 killed, according to 2 outlets.

📍 Nepal, NP·🕐 5h ago·3 outlets

A passenger van veered off a mountain road in Nepal on Thursday, killing at least 10 people

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✓ Verified · 3 outlets

Two or more outlets reported this story and its reliability score reached 65%, so WorldPulse marks it verified. That means more than one outlet says so, not that it is proven true.

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Killed
102 outlets: abcnews.com, newsofbahrain.com· latest Nov 12, 12:29 PM UTC
Nepal Mountain Crash Leaves 10 Dead ↗
Injured
51 outlet: abcnews.com· latest Nov 12, 6:49 AM UTC
Van crashes on mountain road in Nepal, 10 killed and 5 injured ↗
The story so far · 2 reports · · 2 countries✓ Verified Nov 12, 12:07 PM UTC
  1. Nov 12, 6:49 AM UTCFirst report· you’re reading this
    Van crashes on mountain road in Nepal, 10 killed and 5 injuredabcnews.com ↗
  2. Verified: a second independent outlet reported itNov 12, 12:07 PM UTC · +5 h
  3. Nov 12, 12:29 PM UTC+6 h
    Nepal Mountain Crash Leaves 10 Deadnewsofbahrain.com ↗
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cross checkconfirmed90%

[Claude] Both reports describe the same Nepal mountain road crash that killed 10 and injured 5, with the second adding that it was a passenger van on Thursday.

17m ago
corroborationconfirmed80%

Also reported by wral.com (found in GDELT's list of news articles)

38m ago
second readconfirmed80%

[Claude, second read] Agrees: HIGH, a new event. vehicle crash killing at least 10 people, meets the 5-or-more-dead threshold for high.

5h ago
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Reliability
88%

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Risk Score
high risk