Three people including two women were killed in two separate road accidents at Lepo and Utsara villages under the Peterwar police station areas in the city on Thursday night and Friday morning, police sources said.
A 55-year-old unidentified person coming back from Jainamore side in the city was mowed down by a speeding vehicle near Utsara village, Peterwar in Bermo. The accident took place at 8 PM on Thursday.
“The person was crossing the road suddenly came under wheels of truck and died on the spot,” said the Officer in-charge of Peterwar police station, Bipin Kumar.
Police have recovered the body and sent it for postmortem and have registered a case under appropriate sections of IPC.
In another road accident that took place at Lepo village early this morning at 4 am, two women of Shivcharcha group were killed and 15 other members of Shivcharcha group were injured in a head-on collision between a Tata Magic and a truck on NH-23, Bokaro-Ramgrah road, police said.
According to the reports 16 members of a Shivcharcha group of Khatri muhalla of Peterwar were travelling on Tata Magic and they were on way to Rajrappa temple for taking a holy dip on the occasion of Guru Purnima.
When they reached near Lepo village at 4 am on Friday, suddenly their vehicle developed some technical snag and the driver was trying to fix it. Meantime a speeding truck dashed on them.
Two women identified as Malti Devi and Mukul Devi died on the spot, while 15 others including driver got injured.
The injured persons have been sent to local hospital while four of them got in critical, were referred to BGH, Bokaro, said a senior police officer.
Police have registered a case of causing death due to negligence against the driver of the unidentified LP truck. Locals also jammed Bokaro -Ramgrah route for some hours.