KATHMANDU, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Three people were killed and two others injured after a school bus and an auto-rickshaw collided in eastern Nepal's Udayapur district on Monday morning, police said.
All five people aboard the auto-rickshaw, including its driver, were injured in the accident. "Two of the injured were pronounced dead immediately after they were taken to a hospital, while the driver died during treatment," Ganesh Bahadur Bam, the spokesperson for the district police, told Xinhua.
A preliminary police investigation suggested that the auto-rickshaw, travelling at high speed, collided with the bus, he said, adding that a detailed investigation is underway.
Police have taken the school bus driver into custody for further investigation. ■