Police have arrested three persons for their alleged involvement in gang-raping a 25-year-old woman in Biratnagar.

The suspects have been identified as Tek Bahadur Tamang (43) and Binod Chauhan (20) of Mithila Bihari Municipality-11, Dhanusha and 16-year-old boy of Sindhuli.

Tamang is the truck (Pradesh 2-04-001 Kha 0021) driver. Chauhan is the assistant driver.

The 16-year-old boy is the assistant driver of another truck, police said.

DSP Ranjan Kumar Dahal of the District Police Office, Morang said that they raped the woman at Biratnagar Metropolitan City-3 in the wee hours of Monday.

According to him, the trio had reached a hotel in the Bus Park in Biratnagar to have dinner after parking the truck.

After having dinner, they returned to the place where they had parked the truck on a city safari, Dahal said.

According to a preliminary investigation, the woman was also traveling in the same city safari. After having a little chit-chat, they took her to the truck parking area and rape her.

Those who reached the incident site after hearing the screaming of the woman had called the police, it has been learnt.

The irate locals also vandalized the truck.

Further investigation into the incident is underway, police said.