Three dead, one injured in road accident

Three minors died and a woman got injured when a lorry overturned in a road off the main highway at Budhiganga rural municipality-4 in Morang district today.

According to DSP Ranjan Kumar Dahal at the District Police Office, Morang, the lorry with the registration no R J 29 GB 1561 from India and carrying marble stones overturned, fatally trampling four-year-olds Isita Adhikari and Nishant Adhikari and eight-year-old Riha Khawas. They were local residents of place where the accident took place.

Meanwhile, injured in the incident, 60-year-old Jyoti Adhikari is currently undergoing treatment at Birat Teaching Hospital, police said.

DSP Dahal said that police have arrested the lorry’s driver and forwarded investigation into the incident.