Ranchi, Oct 21 Six people, including two women and a four-year-old boy, died in three road accidents in Jharkhand during the past 24 hours, police said on Wednesday.
In Hazaribag, a 35-year-old woman and her minor son were killed at Barhi Chowk when a truck hit them when she was crossing the road with the child, a police officer said.
The deceased have been identified as Urmila Devi and her son Deepanshu.
“She had come to her maternal home in Barhi during the Durga Puja festival,” SDPO Radha Prem Kishore said.
In Medininagar, two men died and another was injured after their motorcycle rammed into a roadside tree at Murmakala village on Tuesday night, police said.
“They were rushed to Medininagar Medical College and Hospital, where two of them succumbed to injuries during treatment. The deceased have been identified as Chandan Singh (26) and Dharmveer Singh (21),” Padwa police station in-charge Anchit Kumar said.
Besides, an elderly couple died in Giridih, after a four-wheeler hit their motorcycle on the Ranikhav-Jamua Main Road on Tuesday.
“The deceased couple were identified as Sahdeo Narayan Choudhary (71), an advocate at a court here and his wife Maya Devi (65). The accident happened when they were heading home,” Pachamba police station in-charge Rajeev Kumar told PTI.
A manhunt was underway to trace the driver of the car, he added.
(PTI News)
