Truck-hit kills motorcyclist in Rautahat

KATHMANDU: One motorcycle rider has died after a moving truck hit his bike on the Chadi-Bagmati stretch of the East-West Highway at Chandrapur Municipality-2 in Rautahat district.

Police identified the deceased as Sonalal Chaudhary, 37, of Judibela in Chandrapur-2. Chaudhary is a local leader of the Nepali Congress (NC) and a former joint secretary of the Janajyoti Multiple Campus, Chandranigahapur.