In a tragic incident, a 21-year-old youth of Dhanbad was killed in an accident and another youth was injured as the vehicle they were riding hit a fallen tree at Turi on Tata-Hata State highway under Potka police station area. The injured were rushed to the Tata Main Hospital emergency where one of them, identified as Bhimsen Bauri succumbed to his injury. Another injured, identified as Pradeep Sardar is recovering at the hospital.
Both Bhimsen and Pradeep were second year students of RVS College of Engineering and Technology under MGM police station area. They were residents of Dhanbad and were studying engineering by staying at their hostel in Ghutia. Sources said Bhimsen was riding the scooty and Pradeep was sitting as pillion rider. As they were negotiating a stretch of the Tata-Hata State highway, Bhimsen failed to take notice of a fallen tree on the road side and rammed into it.
Officer in-charge, Potka police station, Shailendra Kumar said that the poor quality headlight of the scooty was the reason behind the mishap. The police shifted the body to the MGM Medical College mortuary for a post-mortem.