Two persons died in a motorbike accident at Itahari Sub Metropolitan City-7, Sunsari along the East-West Highway on Sunday. 

The deceased have been identified as Sagar Regmi and Paras Thapa from Inaruwa Municipality-3. 

The incident occurred when the motorcycle (Province 1-02-043 P5514) they were riding on crashed into a culvert this morning.

Chandra Bahadur Khadka, Information Officer at The District Police Office, said that Regmi and Thapa, who received serious injuries, breathed their last during the course of treatment at the BP Koirala Health Sciences Institute, Dharan.