A heavy truck hit and killed a scooter rider at Gatthaghar, Bhaktapur, on Thursday afternoon.

According to eyewitnesses, the man was severely crushed by the truck that hit him and further dragged the body and the scooter. The heavy truck hit the victim while he had stopped his scooter as traffic police were checking the vehicles on the road section.

Dinesh Raj Mainali, the spokesperson at Kathmandu police range, said that the details of the incident are yet to come.

The deceased is a man from Okhaldhunga.

The area turned tense as the enraged crowd vandalised the vehicle. Police temporarily halted vehicular movement on the Bhaktapur-Kathmandu road for some time.

Here are some of the photos of the incident captured by the Post’s photojournalist Safal Prakash Shrestha.