A group of armed men looted cash and valuables equivalent to approximately Rs 200,000 from passengers of two night buses and a truck after setting up a road block at a place called Chaudha Kilometre on the Nijgadh-Pathalaiya sector of the Mahendra Highway Saturday night.
According to police the vehicles looted were a night bus (Na. 2 Kha.3175) heading towards Ilam from Kathmandu, another night bus (na. 2Kha. 3849) on its way to Dharan from Pokhara, and the truck (Na 1 Kha. 998.