Three persons were killed in two separate road accidents in Garhwa district on Saturday. In the first incident, a jawan posted in the police line Garhwa was on the Garhwa Manjhiaon Main Road. Deceased Ashok Ram on way to his home, when a private bus crushed him to death. Majhiaon police took the dead body into custody and sent it to Garhwa Sadar Hospital for postmortem.
Another incident took place on the Garhwa-Shahpur road, where two people died in a collision between a bus and a pick-up vehicle near Bhikhi Mode . The driver and the helper of the pickup have died in the incident. The incident took place at around 9:30 am near Bhikhi Mode. The Reliance bus was going to Ranchi from Garhwa. The same pickup vehicle was coming from Daltonganj towards Garhwa. Meanwhile, a fierce collision took place between the two vehicles . Sajid Khan, son of Jafran Khan, resident of Pipra village of Garhwa police station area and Zahid Ansari, resident of Sukhbana village, died. After the incident, angry people have blocked the Garhwa-Shahpur road.
Due to the blockade, long queues of vehicles have formed on both sides of the road. Angry people are demanding compensation to the families of the deceased.