At least three people died in a road accident involving three vehicles in Belbari of Morang district on Friday morning.

Morang District Police Office said the fatalities occurred when a tipper, a bus and a jeep collided on the Belbari road section of the East-West Highway.

Two others were injured, police said.

The tipper hit the bus at first and then the jeep, police said quoting eyewitnesses.

The deceased are a 36-year-old jeep driver of Birtamod Municipality-2, a 51-year-old man of Kamal Rural Municipality and a 50-year-old woman.

The injured are being treated at the Biratnagar-based Neuro Hospital.

Police have arrested the tipper driver, a 23-year-old man of Morang, and his assistant, a 45-year-old man, for further investigation.