A scooter rider died after being hit by a bus in Butwal along the East-West Highway early on Tuesday.

The bus hit the scooter at Shanti Chowk in Belbas at around 3:30am, police said.

The scooter rider died on the spot. The identity of the deceased is yet to be ascertained, according to Highway Safety Traffic Management Office, Butwal.

The body has been kept at Lumbini Provincial Hospital.

Motorcycle accidents account for 68 percent of those killed or injured in road accidents or crashes that occur in Nepal, according to a new report.

Due to the hassles in public transport, two-wheelers especially motorcycles and scooters are very much popular, especially among the youths in Nepal.

However, the final report of the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey-2022 carried out by the Ministry of Health and Population between January 5 and June 22 last year with technical and financial support from the USAID, depicted an alarming figure of deaths and injuries in road accidents, involving motorcycles.