KATHMANDU: Police on Friday arrested two persons on the charge of raping two underage girls in Bhaktapur.

The arrested have been identified as Sujan Gawacha (16) of Liwali in Bhaktapur Municipality-8 of Bhaktapur district and Milan Shrestha (16) of Ramechhap district currently residing in Liwali of the district.

According to police, the duo allegedly raped two 14-year-old girls of Inacho and Liwali of the district in the second storey of an abandoned three and a half storey building in Changunarayan Municipality-7 on Thursday.

The police after being informed of the incident on Friday arrested Gawacha and Shrestha on the same day and sent the girls to the Maharajgunj-based Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital for the medical check-up, informed police.

Meanwhile, further investigation into the case is underway, said police.