BIRATNAGAR: Police arrested two more persons in connection to a murder of a 21-year-old hostel operator in Biratnagar of Morang district recently.

Binod Yadav (21), operator of the local Oxford Hostel, was found dead in a room of Omkar Shrestha’s house in Biratnagar-13 on Tuesday morning.

Police subsequently had arrested three persons in connection to the case on Wednesday. Police had claimed that the trio had confessed to killing Yadav.

Further, police arrested two 19-year-old youth today, according to the Morang District Police Office. They have been identified as Kamal Dev Das from Golbazaar-19 of Siraha and Titendra Yadav of Dhangadhi-4.

Police said they have charged a murder case against all the arrestees.

Though police had found a sharp weapon, a pistol, eight mobile sets, SIM cards and blood-stained clothes from from the site, the motive behind the cold-blooded murder, however, was not known.