Christmas frenzy turned into tragedy as three persons from the steel city were killed as the SUV they were travelling in was hit by a speeding truck at Janchua on NH-33 under Namkum police station area near Ranchi on the wee hours of Friday.
The three victims were identified as Sandeep Singh alias Tinku (30), Gandhi Mallik (26) and Ravi Shankar Verma (27), all residents of Ulidih in Mango.
Sources informed that the three had left for Ranchi at 9 pm on Thursday by travelling in an SUV and as the vehicle was about to enter the State capital, a speeding truck which was coming at a high speed form opposite direction hit the four-wheelers, causing the three to die on the spot.The driver of the truck fled the scene of mishap leaving the vehicle abandoned.
Officer-in-charge, Namkum police station Anil Kumar confirmed about the fatal mishap at Janchua in Namkum in the wee hours on Friday.
“It was really shocking incident. It was a head-on collision between a truck and an SUV, resulting in the death of three occupants of the four-wheeler. We later established that all the three victims were the residents of Ulidih in Mango," said the officer-in-charge. He said the bodies have been sent to the RIMS for post-mortem after a case has been registered against the unidentified truck drive in connection to the incident.
Sandeep’s elder brother Nishant Singh said that his brother runs a mobile shop at Niranjan Complex in Ulidih where they stay.
He said the police have handed them over all the three bodies after post-mortem in RIMS and that they are bringing the bodies to Jamshedpur for last rites.
“The bodies will be kept at the MGM Medical College mortuary today and the last rites of all the three bodies will be held tomorrow,” said the bereaved brother.