Four persons died and 21 others were injured, two of them seriously, when a passenger bus hit a motorcycle before it overturned at Bayarban-9 in Morang on Wednesday evening. Police said two persons who were travelling on the motorcycle and two bus passengers were killed in the incident. 

The deceased were identified as Devendra Limbu and Tilak Limbu of Letang, Morang, and Purushottam Subedi and Tika Subedi of Butwal, Rupandehi. The crash occurred when the motorcyclist took over a truck without seeing an oncoming bus.