Two people have died after two motorcycles collided against each other in Sarlahi. Two others sustained injuries in the incident.
According to DSP Saroj Rai of the District Police Office, Sarlahi, the accident took place at around 8 pm last night near the Banke-Sangrampur road section of Ishwarpur Municipality-13.
Police have said that Mukesh Rai, a 30-year-old resident of Mirchaiya in Haripurwa Municipality-9, Sarlahi, and Ram Gyan Rai, 30, of the same place, died in the accident.
They were found unconscious in the accident and were taken to the Model Hospital in Lalbandi and the Provincial Hospital in Malangwa.
Doctors pronounced them dead when they were taken to the hospital at 10 pm yesterday.
Bikram Rai, 22, of Haripurwa Municipality-9, Sarlahi, and Ram Biswas Rai, 42, of the same place, sustained minor injuries in the accident.
They were taken into custody by the Area Police Office, Keshargunj after receiving preliminary treatment at the Model Hospital in Lalbandi.
Police said that three motorcycles were found in an accident at a place near the hill on the Banke-Sangrampur road section of Ishwarpur Municipality-13 at 8 pm on Wednesday.
“After a passenger traveling on the road reported that three motorcycles with Indian number plates had crashed at the same place, a police team under the command of Police Assistant Inspector Lilanath Mishra from Police Post Gaurishankar went to the scene and rescued the deceased and injured,” DSP Rai told Nepalkhabar. “It is not yet clear which motorcycle the two deceased and the two injured were riding.”
The police picked up all four injured from the accident site and took them to Model Hospital in Lalbandi for treatment.
Police have suspected that the accident was caused due to over speed. Police said that further investigation into the incident is underway.
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