One killed in bus-pickup collision

By Janu Pande, Kapilvastu, June 11: A person died when a passenger bus collided with a pick up van at Jhadulamai in Buddha Bhumi Municipality-4 this morning.

Anish Bhandari, police inspector at the Kapilvast district traffic police office, said that a bus heading to Surkhet from Kathmandu hit the pickup, killing its driver.

The pickup driver, Hiralal Badhai, a resident of Shivaraj Municipality, died on the spot being squeezed in the van.