Two persons died in a road accident in Rupandehi district on Monday night.

According to police, two riders were killed when their motorcycles collided head-on at Gaidahawa Rural Municipality-2.

The deceased is a 23-year-old man and a 16-year-old youth.

The vicenarian man from Gaidahawa-2 breathed his last at City Hospital, Bhairahawa, while the youth succumbed to injury while being treated at Bhim Hospital, according to Area Police Office, Suryapura.