One person died and six sustained injuries in two separate accidents in Gomia block on Friday and Saturday, the police said.
A senior police officer of Gomia police station said the first incident happened when a speeding unknown vehicle hit a person near Tulbul on the Gomia-Lalpania road on Friday night when he was coming back to home from Gomia on his cycle. The person was identified as Girja Saw(45)
In the second incident, eight labourers, who were travelling on a tracker, collided with culvert near Bholadih more on the Gomia-Lalpania road on Saturday morning. Eight persons, including Ram Prasad Manjhi and Ramesh Manjhi, got injured in the incident.
While three persons sustained injuries and have been sent to Sadar hospital Bokaro, the rest of the passengers were getting treatment at Gomia hospital.
But no casualty was reported.