Peeved over the death of six Kanwaries (follower of lord Shiva) the kith and kin’s of the deceased along with locals from Aamdiha Village held protest at Chas on Monday.
Six Kanwaries (Dak Bum) died while 25 injured including 14 severely burnt after a bus carrying the devotees got electrocuted at Banka, Munger district in Bihar on Sunday morning.
Demanding compensation of `10 lakh and jobs to the nearest kin of the deceased, irate protestors blocked the NH-23 along with the dead bodies for more than five hours. The blocked was lifted-up after the intervention of district administration officials who promised them for a compensation of `3 lakhs each by the Jharkhand Government.
The SDO Chas Shyam Narayan Ram handed over the compensation cheques of `3 lakhs given by Bihar Government along with `20,000 under family benefits to each victim’s nearest family member.
“Jharkhand Government has also announced an addition compensation of `3 lakhs to each victim’s families, procedures are ‘on’ and soon cheques would be handed over to their nearest kin”, added Ram.
On Saturday evening, a group of 700 Dakbum Kanwaries form Chas (Bokaro) left for Baidyanath Dham to adore lord Shiva. On next morning one of the bus Maa Bhawani (with Regn No JH 09 M 7222) carrying devotees of Aamdiha village, came in contact with a live high voltage electric wire (11000 volt) when the driver was trying to take pass from another vehicle near Banka in Bihar district.
The wheel of the bus got caught in soft mud when it went off the road and turn tilted and the live wire which was hanging loosely touched the bus near its door claimed six lives while 25 got burn injuries.
The bodies of the deceased Naresh Singh, Manoj Singh, Birendra, Kishan, Amit and Nawal were rushed to their village on Sunday late night while injured Sapan, Subhas, Pradeep, Abhishek, Mantu, Mohit, Chhotu, Nitai, Mithhu along with others rushed to Bokaro and admitted at Bokaro General Hospital for treatment.