Ranchi

Student dies in road accident

RR Srivastava

In a shocking incident, a 7-year-old girl student Suhana Parween, lost her life after being dashed by a police bus near Khirgaon Chowk, situated on NH100 on Wednesday morning. According to eye witnesses Suhana was going to her school on Wednesday morning when a police bus coming towards Chatra dashed her. She died on the spot.

Suhana Parween was the daughter of Md. Firoz Khan of Faizan nagar Hazaribagh and was a student of class 2. The eye witnesses said that the bus was in high speed and the driver instead of stopping the bus after the accident tried to escape from the spot. The mob followed the bus and caught it near Panchmandir Chowk. The driver succeeded to escape.

In the mean time some persons turtle the bus down and tried to torch it but fortunately the sadar PS team reached there with vraj vahan and scattered the mob. The bus having number JH 2 X 3601 was thus saved.

On the same time the patrolling team of TOP 1 reached Khirgaon where angry mob started pelting stones on the police jawans and damaged the vehicle no. JH 2T 0234. The angry mob put the vehicle under fire but then residents of rahat lodge which was just in front of the incident site, saved the vehicle from burning.

Due to this incident the area from Jhanda chowk to Khirgaon suddenly become tensed and people jammed the road with the dead body. The people were demanding Rs 50 lakhs as compensation and a government job for the deceased family.

After getting the news senior officials of district and police administration reached at the spot.