KATHMANDU: Police arrested two persons with truck containing 6,000 litres of diesel and 250 litres of petrol from Kandaghari.

According to the Metropolitan Police Office, the fuel was being ferried to Kathmandu from Kakarbhitta of Jhapa.

Truck owner Narayan Dangol and driver Raj Kumar Khatri have been sent to custody of the Metropolitan Police Circle, Baneshwor.

Police had found 41 drums and jerrycans filled with diesel and petrol.