Three persons died when a bike they were riding on hit a parked truck at Sindhuli Tole in Chireshwornath Municipality-5 of Dhanusha on Tuesday.
Police said that the bike (Na 2 Kha 8624) hit the truck (Lu 83 Pa 8652) at around 2:30 am today.
One of the deceased has been identified as Sumit Agrawal (20) of Janakpurdham-4.
Police said that the identities of two others are yet to be established.
DSP Jitendra Basnet, spokesperson at the District Police Office, Dhanusha, said that the bodies have been kept at the Janakpurdham-based Provincial Hospital for postmortem.
Police said that they have impounded the truck and arrested its driver for investigation.