Two minor girls were killed and three other women were injured near Bana hotel on the east side of NH 98 on Thursday night under Nawa Bazar police station in Palamu. The girls were identified as Kiran Kumari (11) and Suman Kumari (14) who hailed from Kanda village. Sources said a high speed four-wheeler hit these batch of women and girls and then sped away. Officer in-charge of Nawa Bazar police station Chandra Shekhar Kumar confirming the two casualties of two minor girls on the spot on NH 98 last night said the group of these people was on way to a ground where the great serial Ramayan was being screened when a high speed four wheeler hit them and fled away.
Kumar said he immediately alerted the cops in Nawa Bazar area to intercept this vehicle but later on it was found the vehicle that caused deaths had taken a route to Daltonganj and thus escaped without being chased or caught.
Police have registered a case he said.