Truck-motorbike collision leaves couple dead

JHAPA, July 28: A couple died when a truck knocked a motorbike they were riding at Damak-4, Chiyadokan of Jhapa along the East-West Highway.

The deceased have been identified as Purna Bahadur Bista, 43, a hotel entrepreneur of Kankai municipality-3, and his 36-year-old wife Bhima Bista, confirmed the Jhapa district police. The Bista couple had been operating Surunga-based Hotel Heaven.