KAPILVASTU: Three persons including a journalist were killed when a motorcycle collided with a truck (Na 3 Kha 606) on the East- West Highway at Chandrauta, Kapilvastu on Tuesday night.

According to the police, the deceased have been identified as CP Sharma, the Kapilvastu reporter for ABC Television, Prakash Basnet, a teacher of Gugauli secondary school and Ganesh Bista, a local of Shivagadhi VDC.