BP Highway disrupted over unruly driving

SINDHULI: Agitating students have brought the vehicular movement along the BP Highway to a grinding halt in protest of unruly driving.

Students said that they resorted to halting the traffic services after a Tata Sumo jeep hit the college going girls and left the scene.

Rojina Karki and Manita Thapa, students of Sindhuli Multiple College, sustained injuries when the jeep hit them at Kamalamai Municiplaity-4, Dhungebas on Wednesday morning. Critically injured Rojina has been sent to Kathmandu for treatment while Manita is receiving treatment at Sindhuli Hospital.

Irate students hit the street and threw the vehicular movement out of gear calling for action against the guilty and arrangement of treatment to the injured students.

Meanwhile, Chakra Bahadur Singh, Superintendent of Police (SP) at the District Police Office Sindhuli, informed that they have taken control of the Sumo jeep (Ba 3 Cha 6751) and the driver.

With the traffic halt, the vehicular movement from Kathmandu to Tarai districts and from Tarai to Kathmandu has been affected.