Four youths were killed after their motorcycle collided with a jeep near Nayakdih on Koderma-Giridih state highway at Herodih in Giridih district on Thursday, said SDPO, Naveen Singh of Khori Mahua. Police sources said that, the head-on collision between the motorcycle and jeep took place at around 11 am near Nayakdih area within limits of Herodih police station.
Police said that four members of a family were killed on the spot have been identified as Arun Yadav, Lau Yadav, Raju Yadav and Babloo Yadav, while driver of Boloro jeep suffered serious injury in the accident. The injured driver was rushed to nearby hospital while two youths identified as Raju Yadav and Babloo Yadav were rushed to hospital, they succumbed to injuries.
The jeep was coming from Khori Mahua side when it collided with the bike near Nayakdih village and both the vehicles were badly damaged in the accident, police said, adding that they to cut the body of jeep to extricate the driver from the badly mangled vehicle.
A major road through Khori Mahua was blocked four hours after crash involving two vehicles. All four bodies have been sent for postmortem and started its investigation, said Naveen Singh, SDPO.