Three people were killed in separate road accidents in Sindhupalchwok, Rupandehi and Tanahun districts on Tuesday night.
Shur Bahadur Tamang, 65, of Indrawati-4 in Sindhupalchwok died after falling off a running truck (Ba 4 Kha 7018) in Melamchi. Tamang, who died on the spot, was returning home from attending a wedding ceremony.
The truck driver was held and investigations were on, said the police.
Likewise, a man was killed when the motorcycle (Lu 3 Pa 5001) he was riding crashed into a parked truck (Lu 1 Kha 9552) at Dangari along the Taulihawa-Maryadapur section of the road. The dead has been identified as Bijendra Dhobi of Kapilvastu municipality-1.
In Tanahun, a pedestrian died after being hit by Pokhara-bound microbus (Ba 2 Kha 5039) at Bandipur along the Prithvi Highway. Thule Thapamagar, 82, of Bandipur rural municipality-5 died at a hospital in Kathmandu, said the police. The police have held the microbus driver and the microbus.