Fifteen Nepali labourers died Friday when a bus crashed against a tree in Jalpaiguri in West Bengal, police in Jhapa said. Three others died in hospital and 17 others were injured, two seriously, police said.

The bus was transporting Nepali labourers from Kakarvitta in Jhapa to Manipur in northeast India.

PTI reported Friday.  The nationality of the dead was not known.