Six Dead in Two Separate Road Accidents in Jharkhand

National News: In a span of just 12 hours, Jharkhand reported two separate terrifying road accidents that claimed the lives of six people and left seven others injured, according to a police statement on Friday. The first crash took place on Friday afternoon near the Badkitand turn under Taratand police station area on the Giridih-Tundi main road. A speeding truck collided head-on with a pickup van, causing it to overturn on the roadside. Three people died instantly in the collision. They were identified as Nand Kishore (47), Kamal (38), and Jagdish Bhokta (45). Seven other passengers suffered serious injuries, and two of them were later shifted to Shahid Nirmal Mahto Medical College in Dhanbad for advanced treatment.

Police Rush to the Spot

Police officers, including SDPO Jeetwahan Oraon, reached the site soon after the accident. With the help of local residents, the injured were rescued and taken to hospitals. Preliminary reports said most of the pickup van passengers were migrant workers from Bengabad in Giridih, employed in Hazaribagh. They were on their way back home to celebrate Durga Puja with their families.

3 More Killed in East Singhbhum

Earlier, late Thursday night, another deadly crash occurred near Jharia turn on NH-18 in the Baharagora police station area of East Singhbhum district. In this case, a Maruti Swift car going from Kolkata to Jamshedpur was hit from behind by a speeding truck. The impact was so severe that the car was crushed completely, killing all three occupants on the spot. The dead were identified as Ganesh Rai (50), the car driver; Kusumita Patnaik (55), a resident of Jamshedpur; and her daughter Monica Patnaik (28). The family had gone to Kolkata for personal work and was returning to Jamshedpur when the accident happened. Their bodies were handed over to relatives after post-mortem at a government hospital on Friday afternoon.