In a road mishap four persons were killed and two sustained critical injuries when a jeep in which they were travelling lost control and hit a road side tree at Jhalakdiha on Giridih-Madhupur Road in the Giridih district on Monday morning.
According to eyewitnesses all the victims are residents of Chhotki Kharkdiha in Bengabad while a officer-in-charge of littipara police station of Pakur district belonging to Bijhaya village of Giridih district.
The deceased have been identified as Mahesh Prasad Verma O/C litipara police
station, Dr Suresh Verma, Rajesh Verma, Sikandar Yadav while others injured are Suresh Saw and Devendra Saw. Both have sent to Dhanbad for better treatment, police sources said.
According to SDPO Manish Toppo all people of the Chhotki Kharagdiha had gone to Deoghar to witness the marriage barat party on Sunday night. On their return to their village on Sunday, the Bolero driver lost control of the vehicle near Jhalakdiha village on Giridih-Madhupur road and the jeep skidded off the road and hit the roadside tree.
All the four deceased died on the spot. After receing the information, Bangabad police rushed to the spot and admitted the two inured persons at the local hospital, from where both injured were shifted to the Dhanbad medical collage as their condition became further critical.
The four bodies were later taken to sadar hospital Giridih for postmortem, police sources said.