17yo rider killed as speeding bike rams into utility pole

KATHMANDU: Police said a teenage biker succumbed to injuries, which he sustained after a speeding motorcycle that he was riding on rammed into a utility pole at Balaju, KMC-16.

The accident had taken place at around 00:30 am, according to police.

Saroj Ojha (17), a resident of Chisapani in Tarakeshwar Municipality-7 on the northern outskirts of Kathmandu, breathed his last at the Maharajganj-based Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital this morning.

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